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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 Von Neumann's Last years.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many prisoner's dilemmas were played in the game's experiment, according to details in Chapter 6?
(a) 200.
(b) 50.
(c) 100.
(d) 14.

2. Despite escalating armaments the Cold War ended without _____.
(a) U.N. mediation.
(b) A bio-weapon exchange.
(c) Human rights violations.
(d) A nuclear exchange.

3. Many began to see the presumptions of game theory as callous and ___.
(a) Inhumane.
(b) Unthinkable.
(c) Irrational.
(d) Unrealistic.

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?
(a) Oppenheimer.
(b) Nash.
(c) Russell.
(d) Einstein.

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. After his fall von Neumann was examined by a doctor who diagnosed him with what disease?

2. Whose last work was an attempt to design a human brain based computer.

3. In what month did von Neumann die?

4. What was the bomb called that von Neumann developed which became the basis for later nuclear device development?

5. Who developed the game model now known as a prisoner's dilemma?

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