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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 Chicken and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Curtis LeMay.
(c) Douglas MacArthur.
(d) Francis Matthews.

2. Who invited von Neumann to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Flood.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Godel.

3. In what year did North Korea invade South Korea to start the Korean War?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1955.

4. What was the bomb called that von Neumann developed which became the basis for later nuclear device development?
(a) The "bully" bomb.
(b) The "fat man" bomb.
(c) The "trapdoor."
(d) The ICBMs.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which game has a madman strategy?

2. After WWI what did the U.S. push to develop in the hopes of gaining an edge over the Soviet Union?

3. Where was the disastrous Secretary of the Navy's speech about neutralizing the Soviet threat made?

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

5. Who played an unintentional role in resolution of the public nuclear game of chicken?

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