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

2. 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 ICBMs.
(d) The "trapdoor."

3. The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government program to build what?
(a) A computer guided missile.
(b) A bio-weapon.
(c) A hydrogen bomb.
(d) An atomic bomb.

4. What country did some feel stood in the way of a world government and should be bombed?
(a) North Korea.
(b) Japan.
(c) China.
(d) The Soviet Union.

5. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Flood.
(c) Nash.
(d) Russell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher advocated a world government for peace?

2. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.

3. Who was viewed as the "aggressors of peace?"

4. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?

5. In what year did the U.S. get good evidence of Soviet nuclear capability?

(see the answer key)

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