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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. Who did the public see as Machiavellian advocates of nuclear war in connection with the wane in game theory interest?
(a) Oppenheimer and Hilbert.
(b) Matthews and von Neumann.
(c) Russell and von Neumann.
(d) RAND and von Neumann.

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

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

4. In the 1980s who took game theory into unexpected territory according to details in Chapter 12?
(a) RAND scientists.
(b) Biology and Sociology researchers.
(c) I.A.S. staff.
(d) The Manhattan Project scientists.

5. In what month did von Neumann die?
(a) October.
(b) January.
(c) February.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?

3. In which symmetric social dilemma game do parties just not cooperate because they do not want to cooperate?

4. Axelrod's tournaments solicited programs from scientists all around ___.

5. Who appointed von Neumann Atomic Energy Commissioner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is SAGE and why was it developed?

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

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

4. What was an example of a public nuclear game of chicken and who was involved?

5. How did evolutionary game theory come about?

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

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

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

9. Who devised the Stag Hunt game?

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

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