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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In which game is defection the best strategy for either player?
(a) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(b) Divide the Cake.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Stag Hunt.

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

4. Which two person game is similar to Prisoner's Dilemma except that in this game there is no reason to cooperate?
(a) Deadlock.
(b) Stagh Hunt.
(c) Bully.
(d) Kriegspiel.

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

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

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

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

9. In the face of major criticism game theory research shifted from a pure math focus to what?
(a) Animal behavior.
(b) Evolutionary possibilities.
(c) Actual human behavior.
(d) Human psychological factors.

10. Which game had a biblical example of how it is played in Chapter 11?
(a) Kriegspiel.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Bully.
(d) Divide the cake.

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

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

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

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

15. In Stag Hunt how many people are needed to hunt stag?
(a) 1 or 2.
(b) 2 or 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a game of chicken, what happens if both parties swerve simultaneously?

2. What strategy was the most successful during Axelrod's tournaments?

3. Organisms and genes can be thought of to have a kind of what in relation to game theory?

4. In Axelrod's tournaments, how many rounds would each computer program play?

5. 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?

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