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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11 More on Social Dilemmas.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Japan.
(c) Germany.
(d) North Korea.

3. In the prisoner's dilemma, what do both criminals have to do in order to be set free by the police?
(a) Tell lies about each other.
(b) Wait for their lawyers then confess.
(c) Confess.
(d) Keep quiet.

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

5. Many began to see the presumptions of game theory as callous and ___.
(a) Unrealistic.
(b) Unthinkable.
(c) Inhumane.
(d) Irrational.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the RAND Corporation become home to many distinguished scientists?

2. Kriegspiel was developed as a game to be used where?

3. Game theory, according to details in Chapter 3, is a ____ of conflict.

4. In the 1950s and 1960s many viewed international conflict, and specifically ____ as a kind of prisoner's dilemma.

5. According to Chapter 3, von Neumann concerned himself with what type of games, where in order for one person to gain, another person must lose?

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