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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3 we are presented with examples of games that use mixed strategies, but this does not include which game below?
(a) Poker.
(b) Divide the Cake.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Kriegspiel.

3. Who was in charge of the Air Force when it provided funding to RAND?
(a) Truman.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) LeMay.

4. In prisoner's dilemma a ____ action will be bad for both parties,which is a problem game theory seeks to understand.
(a) Selfish.
(b) Simple.
(c) Rational.
(d) Irrational.

5. As mentioned in Chapter 6, which two colleagues agreed to play the experimental prisoner's dilemmas?
(a) Williams and Alchian.
(b) Cun and Williams.
(c) Alchian and Shubik.
(d) Godel and Cun.

6. Prussian ___ were required to play Kriegspiel.
(a) Snipers.
(b) Officers.
(c) Pilots.
(d) Infantry.

7. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Great War.
(d) WWI.

8. What does IAS stand for?
(a) Institute for Advanced Studies.
(b) Institute in Advanced Studies.
(c) Institute of Armament Strategies.
(d) Institute for Armament Strategies.

9. After what war did the United States engage in a prolonged nuclear arms race with another country?
(a) WWII.
(b) The Great War.
(c) WWI.
(d) The Korean War.

10. What course topic was von Neumann invited to teach at Princeton?
(a) Quantum theory.
(b) Probability and Statistics.
(c) Topology.
(d) Physics.

11. In the prisoner's dilemmas experiments, how many times was the equilibrium solution played, according to Chapter 6?
(a) 13.
(b) 14.
(c) 26.
(d) 17.

12. In the divide the cake game the chooser seeks to minimize the ___ piece of cake the cutter will receive.
(a) Size.
(b) Amount.
(c) Maximum.
(d) Minimum.

13. Game theory, according to details in Chapter 3, is a ____ of conflict.
(a) Trapdoor.
(b) Solution.
(c) Model.
(d) Escalation.

14. Several famous RAND studies looked at how the public would respond to contact with aliens and life after what?
(a) An alien abduction.
(b) A nuclear war.
(c) A near death experience.
(d) Chemical warfare.

15. Who developed a mathematical way to extend von Neumann's game theory beyond the original game theory insights?
(a) David Hilbert.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) John Nash.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what year was von Neumann invited to join the Manhattan Project?

3. Besides Bertrand Russell, what mathematician thought a new war between the U.S. and Soviet Union was inevitable once the conflict ended between the Allied and Axis powers?

4. Confessing before one's partner in prisoner's dilemma seems what?

5. David Hilbert was a great ____.

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