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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 The Dollar Auction.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the last name of von Neumann's first wife?
(a) Alois.
(b) Koevesi.
(c) Morgenstern.
(d) Clarke.

2. Organisms and genes can be thought of to have a kind of what in relation to game theory?
(a) Saddle Point.
(b) Strategy.
(c) Cooperation.
(d) Defection.

3. Bertrand Russell is a ___.
(a) Economist.
(b) Physicist.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Mathematician.

4. RAND developed a nuclear fail safe strategy that held that a good second strike capability deterred a first strike by ensuring that the U.S. had plenty of what available?
(a) MIRVs.
(b) ICBMs.
(c) "Fat Bombs."
(d) EMPs.

5. In what country did von Neumann earn his PhD in mathematics?
(a) Germany.
(b) The Middle East.
(c) Hungary.
(d) The United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. As a child prodigy, besides learning mathematics and other subjects, von Neumann also learned what language?

2. In what year did von Neumann slip and fall after being appointed commissioner?

3. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?

4. Axelrod's tournaments solicited programs from scientists all around ___.

5. In the late 1950s what did von Neumann spend most of his time working on?

(see the answer key)

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