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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. Who became pessimistic about military technology and modern society as they aged?

2. In what field was game theory used to model evolutionary game theory?

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

4. As Ohio State subjects were allowed to meet and discuss strategy in the original studies, what strategy dominated play?

5. What General believed it was justified to use nuclear weapons in Korea to prevent a North Korean and Chinese victory?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did von Neumann's views about military technology in modern society change?

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

3. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

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

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

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

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

8. How did von Neumann become the Atomic Energy Commissioner?

9. What is backwards induction?

10. How did evolutionary game theory come about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why are Prisoner's Dilemma, Chicken, Deadlock, and Stag Hunt, all called social dilemmas? Why is the prisoner's dilemma considered the center of gravity for the other three games in relation to pay offs? Be sure to include how switching two of the pay offs in the order of preference helps derive each of the three games from the prisoner's dilemma.

Essay Topic 2

How did the strategic thinking of the Cold War become the logic of mathematical game theory as developed by von Neumann and his partner? Who was involved in the Cold War? Who were key players on either side of the conflict?

Essay Topic 3

In 1971 Martin Shubik published the dollar auction in a 1971 paper and is generally credited as the inventor of this game. What was involved in a game called "so long sucker?" Who collaborated on this game and how did it lead to the development of the dollar auction? How does Shubik describe a dollar auction and what makes it different from an auction at Sotheby's? What applications did the dollar auction have to real life and how did the dollar auction embody the non-rational behavior that many expected in game theory games as part of the logic of escalation in conflict?

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