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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was a public example of a nuclear chicken game?
(a) The Cuban Missile Crisis.
(b) The Korean War.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) WWII.

2. How long did von Neumann take to do calculations for a project which he thought he would need a digital computer to complete?
(a) 12 months.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 months.

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

4. When a madman strategy is used by one player the opposing player is more likely to do what?
(a) Swerve.
(b) Defect.
(c) Confess.
(d) Cooperate.

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

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

7. Which game has a madman strategy?
(a) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Bully.

8. 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) Bela Kun.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Klaus Fuchs.
(d) David Hilbert.

9. Who did the public see as Machiavellian advocates of nuclear war in connection with the wane in game theory interest?
(a) RAND and von Neumann.
(b) Matthews and von Neumann.
(c) Russell and von Neumann.
(d) Oppenheimer and Hilbert.

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

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

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

13. 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) Chicken.
(b) Bully.
(c) Kriegspiel.
(d) Deadlock.

14. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Nash.
(c) Flood.
(d) Russell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the late 1950s what did von Neumann spend most of his time working on?

2. Who developed SAGE?

3. In what field was game theory used to model evolutionary game theory?

4. What game is similar to volunteer's dilemma but is played by only two people?

5. After WWI what did the U.S. push to develop in the hopes of gaining an edge over the Soviet Union?

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