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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 had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Nash.
(c) Hilbert.
(d) Russell.
2. Who played an unintentional role in resolution of the public nuclear game of chicken?
(a) Nash.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Godel.
(d) Russell.
3. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?
(a) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(b) Francis Matthews.
(c) Curtis LeMay.
(d) Douglas MacArthur.
4. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.
(a) John von Neumann.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) John Nash.
(d) David Hilbert.
5. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.
(a) Relay-based.
(b) Transistor.
(c) Analog.
(d) Graphics systems.
Short Answer Questions
1. Besides Bertrand Russell, what mathematician thought a new war between the U.S. and Soviet Union was inevitable once the conflict ended between the Allied and Axis powers?
2. If neither person swerves in a game of chicken what happens?
3. Which game has a madman strategy?
4. What was the bomb called that von Neumann developed which became the basis for later nuclear device development?
5. Which one of von Neumann's friends and colleague used game theory to help the Allies improve bombing efficacy in Europe?
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