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

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

3. In a game of chicken, what happens if both parties swerve simultaneously?
(a) Neither is the chicken.
(b) They have to start over.
(c) A vote determines the winner.
(d) They both win.

4. What strategy was the most successful during Axelrod's tournaments?
(a) Minimax.
(b) Backwards induction.
(c) Tit-for-tat.
(d) Madman.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is also know as a public goods game?

3. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?

4. Over the years variations on the Ohio study have included variables in gender, race and ____.

5. What posed a problem for the prisoner's dilemma in Chapter 12?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened after von Neumann fell in 1955?

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

4. What is Bully?

5. How did evolutionary game theory come about?

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

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

8. How did the tournaments operate?

9. What is backwards induction?

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

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