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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which game was popular in the IAS lunch rooms?
(a) Poker.
(b) Chess.
(c) Kriegspiel.
(d) Tic-tac-toe.

2. At the end of summer at RAND one of the employees would watch what people would ____ when they left.
(a) Leave.
(b) Toss out.
(c) Take.
(d) Sell.

3. John von Neumann helped a company move its _____ computers to digital, stored binary computers.
(a) Analog.
(b) Transistor.
(c) Relay-based.
(d) Graphics systems.

4. In Chapter 1 if the person in one of the rooms pushes the button before their loved one in another room their loved one will be ____.
(a) Saved.
(b) Starved.
(c) Killed.
(d) Fed.

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

6. Where were the Manhattan Project operations located?
(a) D.C.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) New York.
(d) Arizona.

7. Who played Kriegspiel as a boy?
(a) Merrill Flood.
(b) John von Neumann.
(c) Robert Axelrod.
(d) John Nash.

8. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Nash.
(c) Russell.
(d) Hilbert.

9. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?
(a) WWI.
(b) WWII.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The Great War.

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

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

12. Who was in charge of the Air Force when it provided funding to RAND?
(a) Eisenhower.
(b) Truman.
(c) LeMay.
(d) MacArthur.

13. The RAND Corporation became know for "___" the unthinkable as they considered problems arising in varied situations?
(a) Saying.
(b) Thinking.
(c) Doing.
(d) Recommending.

14. In the game prisoner's dilemma the police separate the two criminals into ______ .
(a) A stark cellar.
(b) Interrogation rooms.
(c) Prison cells.
(d) Transfer rooms.

15. As a child prodigy, besides learning mathematics and other subjects, von Neumann also learned what language?
(a) Tagalog.
(b) Greek.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Portuguese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the last name of von Neumann's first wife?

2. In the prisoner's dilemmas experiments, how many times was the equilibrium solution played, according to Chapter 6?

3. How old was von Neumann's daughter from his first marriage when she moved in with him?

4. John von Neumann worked with what company to help design a faster, more compact computer?

5. Besides Russell, who else advocated for preventative war during the Cold War?

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