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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 The Dollar Auction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3 we are presented with examples of games that use mixed strategies, but this does not include which game below?
(a) Kriegspiel.
(b) Baseball.
(c) Poker.
(d) Divide the Cake.

2. The RAND institute at one time had every great U.S. and free world mathematician, physicist and ____ working there.
(a) Economist.
(b) Topologist.
(c) Geologist.
(d) Philosopher.

3. Who played Kriegspiel as a boy?
(a) John von Neumann.
(b) Robert Axelrod.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) John Nash.

4. What game initially led to Shubik's "invention" of the dollar auction according to Chapter 13?
(a) Stag Hunt.
(b) Divide the cake.
(c) Kriegspiel.
(d) So long sucker.

5. What game did Axelrod's tournaments "play?"
(a) Prsioner's Dilemma.
(b) Bully.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Deadlock.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?

2. Who became pessimistic about military technology and modern society as they aged?

3. In Chapter 1 if the person in one of the rooms pushes the button before their loved one in another room their loved one will be ____.

4. How many prisoner's dilemmas were played in the game's experiment, according to details in Chapter 6?

5. John von Neumann was from a family of ___ Jews.

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