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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 which game is defection the best strategy for either player?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Divide the Cake.
(c) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(d) Stag Hunt.

2. 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?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Nixon.
(c) Truman.
(d) Roosevelt.

3. An organism that can adapt to changing circumstances over long periods of time has developed ____.
(a) A stable strategy.
(b) A defection strategy.
(c) An equal strategy.
(d) A natural strategy.

4. In the original Ohio State studies to what strategy did the black button correspond?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Minimax.
(d) Defection.

5. When a madman strategy is used by one player the opposing player is more likely to do what?
(a) Swerve.
(b) Cooperate.
(c) Confess.
(d) Defect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?

2. 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?

3. The original Ohio State studies in the 1950s and 1960s used who as subjects for prisoner's dilemma situations?

4. Who played an unintentional role in resolution of the public nuclear game of chicken?

5. Which game is like a military confrontation where one party "beats up" on the opposing party, but runs the risk of having that opposing party decide it is better to retaliate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened after von Neumann fell in 1955?

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

4. How did the tournaments operate?

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

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

7. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

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

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

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

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