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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In what year was von Neumann invited to join the Manhattan Project?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1943.

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

4. 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) Germany.
(c) China.
(d) North Korea.

5. In Chapter 5 it is mentioned that the RAND Corporation became known as what type of place?
(a) A funding black hole.
(b) The best brains in the world.
(c) A government conspiracy operation.
(d) A think tank.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what country was the United States engaged in a "cold war?"

2. What is the name of von Neumann's daughter from his first wife?

3. In what century did Kriegspiel become popular among the Prussians?

4. In the prisoner's dilemma, what do both criminals have to do in order to be set free by the police?

5. Besides mathematics, von Neumann, according to details in Chapter 2, was also very knowledgeable in what area?

(see the answer key)

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