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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) Kriegspiel.
(b) Stag Hunt.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Chicken.

2. In the 1980s who took game theory into unexpected territory according to details in Chapter 12?
(a) RAND scientists.
(b) The Manhattan Project scientists.
(c) I.A.S. staff.
(d) Biology and Sociology researchers.

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

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. Axelrod's tournaments solicited programs from scientists all around ___.
(a) His State.
(b) The United States.
(c) D.C.
(d) The world.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the subjects in the original Ohio State studies awarded in the pay off situations?

3. Who developed SAGE?

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

5. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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

3. Why did von Neumann's views about military technology in modern society change?

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

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

6. What were the Ohio State studies?

7. In the nuclear war debate how did Francis Matthews figure?

8. What strategy dominated the original Ohio State studies and the later variations?

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

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

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