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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 Stag Hunt how many people are needed to hunt stag?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 1 or 2.
(d) 2 or 3.

2. What game is similar to volunteer's dilemma but is played by only two people?
(a) Bully.
(b) Stag Hunt.
(c) Deadlock.
(d) Chicken.

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

4. Who developed SAGE?
(a) Hilbert.
(b) Nash.
(c) von Neumann.
(d) Godel.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"

3. Where was the disastrous Secretary of the Navy's speech about neutralizing the Soviet threat made?

4. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?

5. After his fall von Neumann was examined by a doctor who diagnosed him with what disease?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the tournaments operate?

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

5. What were the Ohio State studies?

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

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

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

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

10. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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