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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Shortly after earning his PhD in mathematics, von Neumann moved to what country for a teaching position?
(a) Germany.
(b) The United States.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Israel.

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

6. Bertrand Russell is a ___.
(a) Physicist.
(b) Economist.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Mathematician.

7. In what century did Kriegspiel become popular among the Prussians?
(a) 20th.
(b) 18th.
(c) 17th.
(d) 19th.

8. With what country was the United States engaged in a "cold war?"
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Cuba.
(c) Korea.
(d) Germany.

9. John Nash, a brilliant unbalanced mathematician, was von Neumann's old colleague who reconnected with him where?
(a) At IBM.
(b) At Princeton.
(c) At the Manhattan Project.
(d) At RAND.

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

11. In the 1950s and 1960s many viewed international conflict, and specifically ____ as a kind of prisoner's dilemma.
(a) Militia led conflicts.
(b) Nuclear conflict.
(c) Political conflicts.
(d) Human rights conflicts.

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

13. Tic-tac-toe, like the game of ____ , has a finite number of ways it can be played, which can be calculated by a computer.
(a) Chess.
(b) Kriegspiel.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Poker.

14. In Chapter 5 it is mentioned that the RAND Corporation became known as what type of place?
(a) A government conspiracy operation.
(b) The best brains in the world.
(c) A funding black hole.
(d) A think tank.

15. RAND developed a nuclear fail safe strategy that held that a good second strike capability deterred a first strike by ensuring that the U.S. had plenty of what available?
(a) "Fat Bombs."
(b) EMPs.
(c) MIRVs.
(d) ICBMs.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the first name of von Neumann's second wife?

3. Russell was the first to suggest a different game model for ___ than prisoner's dilemma.

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

5. In Chapter 6 one of von Neumann's RAND colleagues in the 1950s was mentioned as whom?

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