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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the RAND Corporation become home to many distinguished scientists?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1947.

2. How many prisoner's dilemmas were played in the game's experiment, according to details in Chapter 6?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 14.
(d) 100.

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

4. David Hilbert was a great ____.
(a) Mathematician.
(b) Economist.
(c) Philosophy thinker.
(d) Physicist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1 if neither loved one pushes their button by the time limit what happens?

2. The RAND institute at one time had every great U.S. and free world mathematician, physicist and ____ working there.

3. In the prisoner's dilemma, what do both criminals have to do in order to be set free by the police?

4. What does IAS stand for?

5. In the prisoner's dilemmas experiments, how many times was the equilibrium solution played, according to Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who helped Flood conduct his 100 prisoner's dilemmas experiments?

2. Who are Mariette, Marianna, and Klara?

3. What is prisoner's dilemma?

4. How did von Neumann end up at Princeton after earning his PhD in mathematics?

5. Why did Russell and von Neumann advocate preventative war during the Cold War?

6. What did Merrill Flood observe and conclude about his RAND colleagues as they left California at the end of summer?

7. How is Kriegspiel different from Chess or Tic-tac-toe?

8. Who is Bertrand Russell?

9. Besides all his work on the Manhattan Project, von Neumann also found time to help IBM. How did he help this company?

10. When was the Cold War and who was involved?

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