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

2. Who originally suggested the RAND Corporation as a research and development institute?
(a) I.A.S.
(b) Douglas Aircraft.
(c) General Douglas MacArthur.
(d) President Truman.

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

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

5. How long do the people, each in separate rooms have to decide about pushing the button before the choice is taken away from them?
(a) 1 hour.
(b) 4 hours.
(c) 1 day.
(d) 15 minutes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who played Kriegspiel as a boy?

3. Besides Einstein, von Neumann was in the presence of such great thinkers as ____ at the IAS.

4. What is the name of von Neumann's daughter from his first wife?

5. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is game theory according to Chapter 1 of "Prisoner's Dilemma?"

2. Who are Mariette, Marianna, and Klara?

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

4. Who is Merrill Flood?

5. Why did Bertrand Russell suggest and believe in the merits of preemptive nuclear war?

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

7. What are the details of one of the ethical dilemmas described in Chapter 1 of "Prisoner's Dilemma"?

8. Why do Poker and Baseball involve mixed strategies?

9. How did the Nash equilibrium strategy affect the prisoner's dilemma game model?

10. What kind of studies did RAND conduct?

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