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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 The Dollar Auction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After his fall von Neumann was examined by a doctor who diagnosed him with what disease?
(a) Radiation poisoning.
(b) Lymphoma.
(c) Alzhemier's.
(d) Prostate Cancer.

2. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.
(a) David Hilbert.
(b) John Nash.
(c) Kurt Godel.
(d) John von Neumann.

3. Where was the disastrous Secretary of the Navy's speech about neutralizing the Soviet threat made?
(a) Illinois.
(b) California.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Nebraska.

4. Who developed the game model now known as a prisoner's dilemma?
(a) Shubik.
(b) Axelrod.
(c) Flood.
(d) Godel.

5. In what year did North Korea invade South Korea to start the Korean War?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1950.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which game was popular in the IAS lunch rooms?

2. As mentioned in Chapter 6, which two colleagues agreed to play the experimental prisoner's dilemmas?

3. In Chapter 1, as time runs out for the loved ones, each in a separate room what will each be tempted to do?

4. How much would people regularly pay to buy a dollar in a dollar auction?

5. When a game does not have a saddle point, what strategy must be used?

(see the answer key)

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