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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. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Truman.
(d) Nixon.

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

3. After WWI what did the U.S. push to develop in the hopes of gaining an edge over the Soviet Union?
(a) The atom bomb.
(b) ICBMs.
(c) The hydrogen bomb.
(d) MIRVs.

4. Game theory, according to details in Chapter 3, is a ____ of conflict.
(a) Model.
(b) Trapdoor.
(c) Escalation.
(d) Solution.

5. Who conducted an experiment to see how real people would respond in the prisoner's dilemma game model?
(a) Nash.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Godel.
(d) Flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a public example of a nuclear chicken game?

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

3. In Chapter 1, as time runs out for the loved ones, each in a separate room what will each be tempted to do?

4. John von Neumann developed game theory partly as an alternative foundation to what?

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

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