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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.
(a) 1950.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1956.

2. 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.

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

4. The original Ohio State studies in the 1950s and 1960s used who as subjects for prisoner's dilemma situations?
(a) Military volunteers.
(b) Prisoners.
(c) Professors.
(d) Students.

5. In which symmetric social dilemma game do parties just not cooperate because they do not want to cooperate?
(a) Stag Hunt.
(b) Bully.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Kriegspiel.

6. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?
(a) Curtis LeMay.
(b) Douglas MacArthur.
(c) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(d) Francis Matthews.

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

8. Which game is also known as an "assurance game?"
(a) Chicken.
(b) Stag Hunt.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Kriegspiel.

9. When did Robert Axelrod hold his game tournaments?
(a) Early 1980s.
(b) Late 1970s.
(c) Mid-1950s.
(d) Mid 1990s.

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

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

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

13. What game is a cross between Deadlock and Chicken?
(a) Bully.
(b) Stag Hunt.
(c) Crossroads.
(d) Volunteer's Dilemma.

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

15. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?
(a) Nash.
(b) Russell.
(c) Godel.
(d) Hilbert.

Short Answer Questions

1. Many began to see the presumptions of game theory as callous and ___.

2. What posed a problem for the prisoner's dilemma in Chapter 12?

3. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"

4. 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?

5. What is also know as a public goods game?

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