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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8 Game Theory and its Discontents.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. When a game does not have a saddle point, what strategy must be used?
(a) Mixed.
(b) Equal.
(c) Pure.
(d) Maximum.

4. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Minimax.
(d) Defection.

5. What was the last name of von Neumann's first wife?
(a) Clarke.
(b) Morgenstern.
(c) Alois.
(d) Koevesi.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Nash, a brilliant unbalanced mathematician, was von Neumann's old colleague who reconnected with him where?

2. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.

3. During von Neumann's time on the Princeton social scene, he attended numerous parties and his drink of choice was what?

4. At the end of summer at RAND one of the employees would watch what people would ____ when they left.

5. Shortly after earning his PhD in mathematics, von Neumann moved to what country for a teaching position?

(see the answer key)

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