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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did Axelrod's tournaments "play?"
(a) Prsioner's Dilemma.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Bully.
(d) Deadlock.

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

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

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

5. Who became pessimistic about military technology and modern society as they aged?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Russell.
(c) Shubik.
(d) Truman.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did von Neumann die?

2. In what year did North Korea invade South Korea to start the Korean War?

3. An organism that can adapt to changing circumstances over long periods of time has developed ____.

4. 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?

5. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?

Short Essay Questions

1. What four games are two-person symmetric as detailed in Chapter 11?

2. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

3. What is backwards induction?

4. In relation to U.S. bomb development who was Harold Urey?

5. What were the variables of later versions of the Ohio State studies?

6. What happened to the initial game theory interest by the mid-1950s?

7. What is the tit-for-tat strategy?

8. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after publicly advocating for so long?

9. What is Bully?

10. Who is Robert Axelrod and why did he hold tournaments?

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