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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Kriegspiel is what is termed an "____" information game.
(a) Imperfect.
(b) Calculated.
(c) Finite.
(d) Infinite.

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

4. The minimax theorem states that every two-person game that is completely defined and where players are completely opposed, will have a solution in either ____ or mixed strategy.
(a) Minimum.
(b) Pure.
(c) Maximum.
(d) Equal.

5. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Nash.
(c) Russell.
(d) Hilbert.

6. In Chapter 1 if neither loved one pushes their button by the time limit what happens?
(a) Both are beaten.
(b) One dies.
(c) Both are set free.
(d) Both die.

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

8. Where were the Manhattan Project operations located?
(a) Arizona.
(b) D.C.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) New York.

9. Kriegspiel was developed as a game to be used where?
(a) Military torture.
(b) Military prisons.
(c) Military academies.
(d) Military hospitals.

10. In prisoner's dilemma a ____ action will be bad for both parties,which is a problem game theory seeks to understand.
(a) Rational.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Simple.
(d) Selfish.

11. What is the name of von Neumann's daughter from his first wife?
(a) Madeline.
(b) Martha.
(c) Mariana.
(d) Marianne.

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

13. In Chapter 5 it is mentioned that the RAND Corporation became known as what type of place?
(a) A funding black hole.
(b) A think tank.
(c) A government conspiracy operation.
(d) The best brains in the world.

14. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.
(a) Kurt Godel.
(b) John Nash.
(c) David Hilbert.
(d) John von Neumann.

15. How old was von Neumann's daughter from his first marriage when she moved in with him?
(a) Late thirties.
(b) Teens.
(c) Pre teens.
(d) Young adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what century did Kriegspiel become popular among the Prussians?

2. What was the first name of von Neumann's first wife?

3. Who originally suggested the RAND Corporation as a research and development institute?

4. In the game prisoner's dilemma the police separate the two criminals into ______ .

5. Besides Bertrand Russell, what mathematician thought a new war between the U.S. and Soviet Union was inevitable once the conflict ended between the Allied and Axis powers?

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