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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6 Prisoners Dilemma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what country was the United States engaged in a "cold war?"
(a) Cuba.
(b) Korea.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) Germany.

2. Who was in charge of the Air Force when it provided funding to RAND?
(a) Truman.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) LeMay.
(d) Eisenhower.

3. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project were in a rush to complete the project before Russia and ____ could complete their similar projects.
(a) China.
(b) North Korea.
(c) Germany.
(d) Japan.

4. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?
(a) Rand.
(b) Nixdorf Computer Corp.
(c) International Business Machines.
(d) Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.

5. Russell was the first to suggest a different game model for ___ than prisoner's dilemma.
(a) Nuclear war.
(b) Building a world government.
(c) Selling a car.
(d) Negotiating a peace treaty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Bertrand Russell is a ___.

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

3. Which game was popular in the IAS lunch rooms?

4. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.

5. In the game model prisoner's dilemma who developed the equilibrium solution that undermined rationality in general?

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