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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. Over the years variations on the Ohio study have included variables in gender, race and ____.
(a) Car ownership.
(b) Education.
(c) Eye color.
(d) Books read.

2. Organisms and genes can be thought of to have a kind of what in relation to game theory?
(a) Defection.
(b) Strategy.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Saddle Point.

3. What is the most popular "solution" to the rational to cooperate in Prisoner's Dilemma as explained in Chapter 11?
(a) Tit-for-tat.
(b) Minimax.
(c) Equilibrium.
(d) Repeated play.

4. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Great Britain and the U.S.
(c) The United States.
(d) The U.S. and France.

5. What was a public example of a nuclear chicken game?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Cold War.
(d) The Cuban Missile Crisis.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Stag Hunt how many people are needed to hunt stag?

2. What game is similar to volunteer's dilemma but is played by only two people?

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

4. In what year was von Neumann appointed Atomic Energy Commissioner?

5. Which game is also known as an "assurance game?"

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is backwards induction?

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

4. What happened after von Neumann fell in 1955?

5. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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

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

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

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

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

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