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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The RAND Corporation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John von Neumann was from a family of ___ Jews.
(a) Czech.
(b) Hungarian.
(c) German.
(d) Polish.

2. David Hilbert was a great ____.
(a) Physicist.
(b) Mathematician.
(c) Economist.
(d) Philosophy thinker.

3. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?
(a) Rand.
(b) Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corp.
(c) International Business Machines.
(d) Nixdorf Computer Corp.

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

5. According to Chapter 3, von Neumann concerned himself with what type of games, where in order for one person to gain, another person must lose?
(a) Non-cooperative games.
(b) Non-zero sum games.
(c) N-person games.
(d) Zero-sum games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Several famous RAND studies looked at how the public would respond to contact with aliens and life after what?

2. During the Cold War "mutually assured ___" was the deterrence doctrine of the time.

3. In Chapter 1, as time runs out for the loved ones, each in a separate room what will each be tempted to do?

4. Which one of von Neumann's colleagues, though a left wing pacifist, joined with him in advocating preventative nuclear war against the Soviet Union?

5. John von Neumann's original game theory was extended to find an equilibrium solution to what kind of games?

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