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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 The Bomb.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1 if the person in one of the rooms pushes the button before their loved one in another room their loved one will be ____.
(a) Fed.
(b) Saved.
(c) Killed.
(d) Starved.

2. Game theory, according to details in Chapter 3, is a ____ of conflict.
(a) Trapdoor.
(b) Escalation.
(c) Model.
(d) Solution.

3. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?
(a) Nash.
(b) Russell.
(c) von Neumann.
(d) Hilbert.

4. Tic-tac-toe, like the game of ____ , has a finite number of ways it can be played, which can be calculated by a computer.
(a) Baseball.
(b) Chess.
(c) Poker.
(d) Kriegspiel.

5. Which one of von Neumann's friends and colleague used game theory to help the Allies improve bombing efficacy in Europe?
(a) Bertrand Russell.
(b) John Nash.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) Kurt Godel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Despite escalating armaments the Cold War ended without _____.

2. Where were the Manhattan Project operations located?

3. Which game was popular in the IAS lunch rooms?

4. As a child prodigy, besides learning mathematics and other subjects, von Neumann also learned what language?

5. How old was von Neumann when he was invited to teach a course at Princeton?

(see the answer key)

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