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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. 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.

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

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

4. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1949.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What game did Axelrod's tournaments "play?"

2. Later in variations of the Ohio State study, what strategy dominated play?

3. Many believed that game theory games modeled seemingly perfect but inhuman and ____ players.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the tournaments operate?

2. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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

4. What is Bully?

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

6. What happened after von Neumann fell in 1955?

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

8. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

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

10. What were the Ohio State studies?

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