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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. In the face of major criticism game theory research shifted from a pure math focus to what?
(a) Human psychological factors.
(b) Actual human behavior.
(c) Animal behavior.
(d) Evolutionary possibilities.

2. What game is a cross between Deadlock and Chicken?
(a) Volunteer's Dilemma.
(b) Bully.
(c) Crossroads.
(d) Stag Hunt.

3. What was the name of the Russian spy working in Britain that helped leak key nuclear information to help Russia become nuclear capable quicker?
(a) David Hilbert.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Klaus Fuchs.
(d) Bela Kun.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Axelrod Teach?

3. 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?

4. What strategy embodied some human psychology aspects according to Chapter 12?

5. If neither person swerves in a game of chicken what happens?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did evolutionary game theory come about?

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

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

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

7. What is Bully?

8. What happened after von Neumann fell in 1955?

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

10. What game did people think nuclear warfare modeled and why did this change?

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