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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The RAND Corporation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the Cold War "mutually assured ___" was the deterrence doctrine of the time.
(a) Development.
(b) Success.
(c) Peace.
(d) Destruction.

2. Despite escalating armaments the Cold War ended without _____.
(a) A nuclear exchange.
(b) U.N. mediation.
(c) A bio-weapon exchange.
(d) Human rights violations.

3. Kriegspiel is what is termed an "____" information game.
(a) Imperfect.
(b) Calculated.
(c) Finite.
(d) Infinite.

4. With what country was the United States engaged in a "cold war?"
(a) The Soviet Union.
(b) Germany.
(c) Cuba.
(d) Korea.

5. 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) Killed.
(b) Saved.
(c) Starved.
(d) Fed.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Nash, a brilliant unbalanced mathematician, was von Neumann's old colleague who reconnected with him where?

2. In what country did von Neumann earn his PhD in mathematics?

3. According to Chapter 3, von Neumann concerned himself with what type of games, where in order for one person to gain, another person must lose?

4. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?

5. In what century was Kriegspiel developed?

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