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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. Bertrand Russell is a ___.

2. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.

3. Who conducted an experiment to see how real people would respond in the prisoner's dilemma game model?

4. Confessing before one's partner in prisoner's dilemma seems what?

5. Besides Russell, who else advocated for preventative war during the Cold War?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kriegspiel different from Chess or Tic-tac-toe?

2. What is prisoner's dilemma?

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

4. What are zero-sum games?

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

6. What was the RAND Corporation?

7. What is the IAS?

8. Who are Mariette, Marianna, and Klara?

9. What are the details of one of the ethical dilemmas described in Chapter 1 of "Prisoner's Dilemma"?

10. What kind of studies did RAND conduct?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Douglas Hofstadter invented the largest-number game. This lottery luring game was concluded to be a hopeless situation. What did this game involve and what were some examples of this game in Chapter 13? What were some common problems and/or complaints about this game? Why was this game concluded to be a hopeless situation?

Essay Topic 3

In real life dollar auctions the author writes about how many a justifiable action, in looking back, becomes the first "defection" in an escalating dilemma. How can you penalize the first bidder for not wanting to waste the "ninety-nine cent profit?" In relation to the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union what was the defection? Why was there a defection and how did this dilemma escalate as both sides designed more and more nuclear weapons?

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