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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) Defection.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Tit-for-tat.
(d) Cooperation.

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

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

4. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.
(a) Relay-based.
(b) Graphics systems.
(c) Analog.
(d) Transistor.

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?
(a) Zero-sum games.
(b) Non-cooperative games.
(c) Non-zero sum games.
(d) N-person games.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many prisoner's dilemmas were played in the game's experiment, according to details in Chapter 6?

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

3. Who conducted an experiment to see how real people would respond in the prisoner's dilemma game model?

4. What is also know as a public goods game?

5. The RAND Corporation became know for "___" the unthinkable as they considered problems arising in varied situations?

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