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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In what year did von Neumann slip and fall after being appointed commissioner?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1955.
2. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1943.
3. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the red button correspond?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Defection.
(c) Minimax.
(d) Tit-for-tat.
4. What were the subjects in the original Ohio State studies awarded in the pay off situations?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Food vouchers.
(c) Medals.
(d) Money.
5. In what year was von Neumann appointed Atomic Energy Commissioner?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1953.
6. Where was the Russian spy born who was instrumental in helping Russia achieve nuclear capability?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Germany.
(c) Russia.
(d) United States.
7. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?
(a) Defection.
(b) Tit-for-tat.
(c) Minimax.
(d) Cooperation.
8. Axelrod's tournaments solicited programs from scientists all around ___.
(a) The world.
(b) His State.
(c) D.C.
(d) The United States.
9. Who played an unintentional role in resolution of the public nuclear game of chicken?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Godel.
(c) Russell.
(d) Nash.
10. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?
(a) Russell.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Nash.
(d) Flood.
11. Organisms and genes can be thought of to have a kind of what in relation to game theory?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Saddle Point.
(c) Defection.
(d) Strategy.
12. Where was the disastrous Secretary of the Navy's speech about neutralizing the Soviet threat made?
(a) Illinois.
(b) California.
(c) Arizona.
(d) Nebraska.
13. What is the most popular "solution" to the rational to cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma as explained in Chapter 11?
(a) Minimax.
(b) Repeated play.
(c) Tit-for-tat.
(d) Equilibrium.
14. In ____, two-person games neither player has an advantage.
(a) Perfect information.
(b) Imperfect information.
(c) Symmetric.
(d) Asymmetric.
15. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.
(a) 1953.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1950.
Short Answer Questions
1. 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?
2. In what month did von Neumann die?
3. In Stag Hunt how many people are needed to hunt stag?
4. Who became pessimistic about military technology and modern society as they aged?
5. What could SAGE detect?
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