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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"
(a) The United States.
(b) The Soviet Union.
(c) Great Britain and the U.S.
(d) The U.S. and France.

3. What strategy embodied some human psychology aspects according to Chapter 12?
(a) Backwards induction.
(b) Madman.
(c) Minimax.
(d) Tit-for-tat.

4. As his health worsened von Neumann's ___ was one of the first things to go.
(a) Coordination.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Speech.
(d) Mind.

5. In what year did North Korea invade South Korea to start the Korean War?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1947.

6. What were the subjects in the original Ohio State studies awarded in the pay off situations?
(a) Money.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Medals.
(d) Food vouchers.

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

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

9. Over the years variations on the Ohio study have included variables in gender, race and ____.
(a) Eye color.
(b) Books read.
(c) Education.
(d) Car ownership.

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

11. Where was the Russian spy born who was instrumental in helping Russia achieve nuclear capability?
(a) Russia.
(b) United States.
(c) Germany.
(d) Hungary.

12. What posed a problem for the prisoner's dilemma in Chapter 12?
(a) Backwards induction.
(b) Madman's strategy.
(c) Evolutionary game theory.
(d) Economic exchange.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What game is a cross between Deadlock and Chicken?

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

4. When a madman strategy is used by one player the opposing player is more likely to do what?

5. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.

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