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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. If neither person swerves in a game of chicken what happens?
(a) They start again.
(b) Neither wins.
(c) They both die.
(d) They both lose.

2. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.
(a) John Nash.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) David Hilbert.
(d) John von Neumann.

3. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Russell.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Nash.

4. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?
(a) WWI.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Great War.
(d) The Vietnam War.

5. Who was President of the United States when the nuclear debate came to a head and a study resulted to determine how many bombs the U.S. actually had?
(a) Nixon.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Roosevelt.
(d) Truman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a public example of a nuclear chicken game?

2. What philosopher advocated a world government for peace?

3. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?

4. In which game is defection the best strategy for either player?

5. 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?

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