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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. What is also know as a public goods game?
(a) Prisoner's Dilemma.
(b) Volunteer's Dilemma.
(c) Stag Hunt.
(d) Deadlock.

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

3. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project were in a rush to complete the project before Russia and ____ could complete their similar projects.
(a) Japan.
(b) North Korea.
(c) China.
(d) Germany.

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

5. According to details in Chapter 7 Harold Urey was a key developer of what?
(a) The atom bomb.
(b) MIRVs.
(c) The hydrogen bomb.
(d) ICBMs.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?

4. The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government program to build what?

5. Who publicly disavowed preemptive war after so publicly advocating this stance before?

(see the answer key)

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