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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What could SAGE detect?
(a) Radiation leaks.
(b) Radioactive elements.
(c) Nuclear detonation.
(d) Nuclear devices.

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

4. In what field was game theory used to model evolutionary game theory?
(a) Anthropology.
(b) Biology.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Psychologyy.

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

6. Before the game of chicken what game model did many believe nuclear warfare was like?
(a) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(b) Divide the Cake.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Bully.

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

8. After WWI what did the U.S. push to develop in the hopes of gaining an edge over the Soviet Union?
(a) MIRVs.
(b) The hydrogen bomb.
(c) ICBMs.
(d) The atom bomb.

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

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

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

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

13. In what month did von Neumann die?
(a) October.
(b) May.
(c) January.
(d) February.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As his health worsened von Neumann's ___ was one of the first things to go.

2. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the red button correspond?

3. Axelrod's tournaments solicited programs from scientists all around ___.

4. Which game is also known as an "assurance game?"

5. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?

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