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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.
(a) Punishment.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Defection.
(d) Benefits.

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

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

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

5. In Chapter 1, as time runs out for the loved ones, each in a separate room what will each be tempted to do?
(a) Quit.
(b) Beg for more time.
(c) Push the button.
(d) Wait it out.

6. 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) EMPs.
(b) MIRVs.
(c) "Fat Bombs."
(d) ICBMs.

7. Who invited von Neumann to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) Godel.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Flood.
(d) Einstein.

8. Game theory involves competitive games between perfectly ____ and opposed players.
(a) Rational.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Matched.
(d) Equal.

9. In the game model prisoner's dilemma who developed the equilibrium solution that undermined rationality in general?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Flood.
(c) Nash.
(d) Godel.

10. Which one of von Neumann's friends and colleague used game theory to help the Allies improve bombing efficacy in Europe?
(a) John Nash.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Bertrand Russell.
(d) Merrill Flood.

11. Besides Einstein, von Neumann was in the presence of such great thinkers as ____ at the IAS.
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Graham.
(c) Alois Alzheimer.
(d) Edison.

12. What was the bomb called that von Neumann developed which became the basis for later nuclear device development?
(a) The "fat man" bomb.
(b) The ICBMs.
(c) The "trapdoor."
(d) The "bully" bomb.

13. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Russell.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Nash.

14. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues' family had been a member of the House of Lords?
(a) Flood.
(b) Russell.
(c) Alchian.
(d) Nash.

15. Confessing before one's partner in prisoner's dilemma seems what?
(a) Selfish.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Simple.
(d) Rational.

Short Answer Questions

1. John von Neumann developed game theory partly as an alternative foundation to what?

2. During the Cold War "mutually assured ___" was the deterrence doctrine of the time.

3. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?

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

5. What philosopher advocated a world government for peace?

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