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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Russell was the first to suggest a different game model for ___ than prisoner's dilemma.

2. When you make a decision in a game that you think your opponent will make, you are using a minimax or ___ strategy.

3. Game theory, according to details in Chapter 3, is a ____ of conflict.

4. What was the first name of von Neumann's second wife?

5. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is John Nash?

2. What are zero-sum games?

3. Why did Bertrand Russell suggest and believe in the merits of preemptive nuclear war?

4. What was the Manhattan Project?

5. How did the Nash equilibrium strategy affect the prisoner's dilemma game model?

6. Who is Bertrand Russell?

7. How did von Neumann end up at Princeton after earning his PhD in mathematics?

8. Who originally suggested the RAND corporation and for what purpose?

9. What was the RAND Corporation?

10. What did Merrill Flood observe and conclude about his RAND colleagues as they left California at the end of summer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter 11 details more social dilemmas and outlines differences in two classes of games - symmetric and asymmetric. What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric games? What are examples of both? How do you play a game of Bully and how is this game a model for human conflict?

Essay Topic 2

How did each of these people figure in the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union: Harold Urey, Klaus Fuchs, Douglas MacArthur, and Francis Matthews?

Essay Topic 3

Why was John von Neumann considered a child prodigy? How did his genius affect his academic, professional and personal life? Beginning with von Neumann's childhood, chronicle his milestones in connection with his great intellect.

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