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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 defection strategy.
(d) A stable strategy.

2. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1946.

3. As Ohio State subjects were allowed to meet and discuss strategy in the original studies, what strategy dominated play?
(a) Cooperation.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Tit-for-tat.
(d) Defection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?
(a) Minimax.
(b) Tit-for-tat.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Defection.

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

12. Who came up with the game model centered around two hunters deciding what to hunt for the day?
(a) Russell.
(b) Nash.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Einstein.

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

14. Who played an unintentional role in resolution of the public nuclear game of chicken?
(a) Godel.
(b) Russell.
(c) Nash.
(d) von Neumann.

15. Many believed that game theory games modeled seemingly perfect but inhuman and ____ players.
(a) Callous.
(b) Too perfect.
(c) Unrealistic.
(d) Amoral.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How long did von Neumann take to do calculations for a project which he thought he would need a digital computer to complete?

4. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?

5. In Stag Hunt how many people are needed to hunt stag?

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