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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Axelrod's tournaments, how many rounds would each computer program play?
(a) 50.
(b) 200.
(c) 100.
(d) 300.

4. In a game of chicken, what happens if both parties swerve simultaneously?
(a) A vote determines the winner.
(b) They both win.
(c) They have to start over.
(d) Neither is the chicken.

5. What is also know as a public goods game?
(a) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(b) Deadlock.
(c) Stag Hunt.
(d) Volunteer's Dilemma.

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

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

8. According to Chapter 11 how many separate pay off situations are there for the two person games like Chicken where no player has an advantage?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

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

11. A study commissioned to find out how many bombs the U.S. had available reported that a total of 300 to 600 bombs were available in what year?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1947.

12. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?
(a) LeMay.
(b) MacArthur.
(c) Pershing.
(d) Eisenhower.

13. 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?
(a) Deadlock.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Kriegspiel.
(d) Bully.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who appointed von Neumann Atomic Energy Commissioner?

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

4. Over the years variations on the Ohio study have included variables in gender, race and ____.

5. When did Robert Axelrod hold his game tournaments?

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