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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?
(a) Russell.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Flood.
(d) Nash.

3. In what field was game theory used to model evolutionary game theory?
(a) Biology.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Psychologyy.

4. When did the initial interest in game theory begin to wane?
(a) End of 19th century.
(b) Mid-1950s.
(c) Late 1940s.
(d) Early 1960s.

5. What is also know as a public goods game?
(a) Stag Hunt.
(b) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Volunteer's Dilemma.

6. What is the most popular "solution" to the rational to cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma as explained in Chapter 11?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Repeated play.
(c) Equilibrium.
(d) Minimax.

7. As Ohio State subjects were allowed to meet and discuss strategy in the original studies, what strategy dominated play?
(a) Defection.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Tit-for-tat.
(d) Minimax.

8. In ____, two-person games neither player has an advantage.
(a) Perfect information.
(b) Symmetric.
(c) Asymmetric.
(d) Imperfect information.

9. Who became pessimistic about military technology and modern society as they aged?
(a) Shubik.
(b) Russell.
(c) von Neumann.
(d) Truman.

10. Where did Axelrod Teach?
(a) Michigan.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.

11. In Stag Hunt how many people are needed to hunt stag?
(a) 1.
(b) 2 or 3.
(c) 1 or 2.
(d) 2.

12. In a game of chicken, what happens if both parties swerve simultaneously?
(a) They both win.
(b) They have to start over.
(c) A vote determines the winner.
(d) Neither is the chicken.

13. Which game is also known as an "assurance game?"
(a) Deadlock.
(b) Stag Hunt.
(c) Kriegspiel.
(d) Chicken.

14. What posed a problem for the prisoner's dilemma in Chapter 12?
(a) Economic exchange.
(b) Evolutionary game theory.
(c) Backwards induction.
(d) Madman's strategy.

15. A study commissioned to find out how many bombs the U.S. had available reported that a total of 300 to 600 bombs were available in what year?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who did the public see as Machiavellian advocates of nuclear war in connection with the wane in game theory interest?

3. In what year was von Neumann appointed Atomic Energy Commissioner?

4. When a madman strategy is used by one player the opposing player is more likely to do what?

5. Where was the Russian spy born who was instrumental in helping Russia achieve nuclear capability?

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