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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. What is also know as a public goods game?
(a) Stag Hunt.
(b) Deadlock.
(c) Volunteer's Dilemma.
(d) Prisoner's Dilemma.

2. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?
(a) Russell.
(b) Godel.
(c) Nash.
(d) Hilbert.

3. In which game is defection the best strategy for either player?
(a) Divide the Cake.
(b) Stag Hunt.
(c) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(d) Chicken.

4. According to Chapter 11 how many separate pay off situations are there for the two person games like Chicken where no player has an advantage?
(a) 3.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 4.

5. Who came up with the game model centered around two hunters deciding what to hunt for the day?
(a) Russell.
(b) Nash.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The original Ohio State studies in the 1950s and 1960s used who as subjects for prisoner's dilemma situations?

4. Due to his deteriorating health von Neumann was confined to a wheelchair in ___.

5. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is backwards induction?

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

3. What were the Ohio State studies?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What did a study reveal about the available bombs in the U.S. in 1947 and 1950?

10. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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