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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 strategy was the most successful during Axelrod's tournaments?
(a) Backwards induction.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Madman.
(d) Tit-for-tat.

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

3. After his fall von Neumann was examined by a doctor who diagnosed him with what disease?
(a) Radiation poisoning.
(b) Lymphoma.
(c) Alzhemier's.
(d) Prostate Cancer.

4. In the late 1950s what did von Neumann spend most of his time working on?
(a) The atom bomb.
(b) The H-bomb.
(c) MIRVs.
(d) I.A.S. projects.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What game is similar to volunteer's dilemma but is played by only two people?

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

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

4. In Axelrod's tournaments, how many rounds would each computer program play?

5. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What were the Ohio State studies?

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

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

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

6. In relation to Russian nuclear capability who was Klaus Fuchs?

7. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

8. How did von Neumann become the Atomic Energy Commissioner?

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

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

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