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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An organism that can adapt to changing circumstances over long periods of time has developed ____.
(a) A natural strategy.
(b) A stable strategy.
(c) A defection strategy.
(d) An equal strategy.

2. Later in variations of the Ohio State study, what strategy dominated play?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Defection.
(d) Cooperation.

3. In what year was von Neumann appointed Atomic Energy Commissioner?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1947.

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

5. Where was the disastrous Secretary of the Navy's speech about neutralizing the Soviet threat made?
(a) Illinois.
(b) California.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Arizona.

6. Who developed SAGE?
(a) Godel.
(b) Hilbert.
(c) von Neumann.
(d) Nash.

7. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"
(a) The U.S. and France.
(b) The United States.
(c) The Soviet Union.
(d) Great Britain and the U.S.

8. Besides Chicken what other two-person, non-cooperative game gets a lot of attention?
(a) Stag Hunt.
(b) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Bully.

9. If neither person swerves in a game of chicken what happens?
(a) They both lose.
(b) They both die.
(c) They start again.
(d) Neither wins.

10. In the 1980s who took game theory into unexpected territory according to details in Chapter 12?
(a) Biology and Sociology researchers.
(b) RAND scientists.
(c) I.A.S. staff.
(d) The Manhattan Project scientists.

11. Who appointed von Neumann Atomic Energy Commissioner?
(a) Roosevelt.
(b) Truman.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Nixon.

12. Organisms and genes can be thought of to have a kind of what in relation to game theory?
(a) Saddle Point.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Strategy.
(d) Defection.

13. In Axelrod's tournaments, how many rounds would each computer program play?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 300.
(d) 100.

14. As his health worsened von Neumann's ___ was one of the first things to go.
(a) Speech.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Coordination.
(d) Mind.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chapter 11 how many separate pay off situations are there for the two person games like Chicken where no player has an advantage?

2. 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?

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?

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

5. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?

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