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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. Prussians issued Kriegspiel to every ____.
(a) Squad.
(b) Regiment.
(c) Patrol.
(d) Platoon.

2. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project were in a rush to complete the project before Russia and ____ could complete their similar projects.
(a) North Korea.
(b) China.
(c) Japan.
(d) Germany.

3. What is the only real way to win in dollar auctions?
(a) Pretend to defect.
(b) Negotiate with the other players.
(c) Pretend to cooperate.
(d) Do not play.

4. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?
(a) LeMay.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Pershing.

5. By the end of the book we find von Neumann had become pessimistic about technology in modern society, and many agreed with him that the logic of ____ in conflict is inescapable.
(a) Mutual defection.
(b) Defection.
(c) Escalation.
(d) War.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the 1950s and 1960s many viewed international conflict, and specifically ____ as a kind of prisoner's dilemma.

2. Many began to see the presumptions of game theory as callous and ___.

3. Who did the public see as Machiavellian advocates of nuclear war in connection with the wane in game theory interest?

4. In the game prisoner's dilemma the police separate the two criminals into ______ .

5. In what year did von Neumann slip and fall after being appointed commissioner?

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