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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Robert Axelrod hold his game tournaments?
(a) Mid 1990s.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) Early 1980s.
(d) Mid-1950s.

2. In what year did von Neumann slip and fall after being appointed commissioner?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1956.

3. Which game is like a military confrontation where one party "beats up" on the opposing party, but runs the risk of having that opposing party decide it is better to retaliate?
(a) Kriegspiel.
(b) Bully.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Chicken.

4. Which two person game is similar to Prisoner's Dilemma except that in this game there is no reason to cooperate?
(a) Deadlock.
(b) Kriegspiel.
(c) Bully.
(d) Stagh Hunt.

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

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

7. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.
(a) 1949.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1953.

8. After his fall von Neumann was examined by a doctor who diagnosed him with what disease?
(a) Radiation poisoning.
(b) Prostate Cancer.
(c) Alzhemier's.
(d) Lymphoma.

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

10. In what month did von Neumann die?
(a) January.
(b) February.
(c) October.
(d) May.

11. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?
(a) The atom bomb.
(b) ICBMs.
(c) The hydrogen bomb.
(d) MIRVs.

12. What was the name of the Russian spy working in Britain that helped leak key nuclear information to help Russia become nuclear capable quicker?
(a) Kurt Godel.
(b) Klaus Fuchs.
(c) David Hilbert.
(d) Bela Kun.

13. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1949.

14. Before the game of chicken what game model did many believe nuclear warfare was like?
(a) Deadlock.
(b) Divide the Cake.
(c) Bully.
(d) Prisoner's Dilemma.

15. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?
(a) Nash.
(b) Hilbert.
(c) Russell.
(d) Godel.

Short Answer Questions

1. In ____, two-person games neither player has an advantage.

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

3. If neither person swerves in a game of chicken what happens?

4. When did the initial interest in game theory begin to wane?

5. What game did Axelrod's tournaments "play?"

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