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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of von Neumann's second wife?

2. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.

3. Who played Kriegspiel as a boy?

4. Who invited von Neumann to join the Manhattan Project?

5. When did the RAND Corporation become home to many distinguished scientists?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Merrill Flood?

2. Who is John Nash?

3. What kind of studies did RAND conduct?

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

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

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

7. What was the Princeton social scene like while von Neumann was at IAS?

8. Where is von Neumann from and why was he considered a child prodigy?

9. Who originally suggested the RAND corporation and for what purpose?

10. What were the results of Flood's experimental prisoner's dilemmas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did interest in game theory wane in the mid-1950s? With whom or with what did the public associate game theory by this time? How did this discontent affect the focus of game theory research? How did the Ohio Studies come out of this shift? What did the Ohio State studies examine and what did they reveal, including in later variations in the studies?

Essay Topic 2

What is a pure strategy in game theory? What are mixed strategies? When are mixed strategies used as opposed to a pure strategy? What are some examples of games that use pure strategy? Games that involve mixed strategies?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter 11 details more social dilemmas and outlines differences in two classes of games - symmetric and asymmetric. What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric games? What are examples of both? How do you play a game of Bully and how is this game a model for human conflict?

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