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

2. In ____, two-person games neither player has an advantage.
(a) Asymmetric.
(b) Imperfect information.
(c) Perfect information.
(d) Symmetric.

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

4. In what year was von Neumann appointed Atomic Energy Commissioner?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1953.

5. Who appointed von Neumann Atomic Energy Commissioner?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Truman.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Roosevelt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What strategy was the most successful during Axelrod's tournaments?

2. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?

3. In the late 1950s what did von Neumann spend most of his time working on?

4. Axelrod's tournaments solicited programs from scientists all around ___.

5. Besides Chicken what other two-person, non-cooperative game gets a lot of attention?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bully?

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

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

4. What is the madman strategy and how does it affect the game of chicken?

5. What was an example of a public nuclear game of chicken and who was involved?

6. What happened after von Neumann fell in 1955?

7. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

8. What did a study reveal about the available bombs in the U.S. in 1947 and 1950?

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

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

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