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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what century was Kriegspiel developed?
(a) 20th.
(b) 19th.
(c) 18th.
(d) 17th.

2. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project were in a rush to complete the project before Russia and ____ could complete their similar projects.
(a) China.
(b) Japan.
(c) Germany.
(d) North Korea.

3. How old was von Neumann when he was invited to teach a course at Princeton?
(a) 32.
(b) 20.
(c) 26.
(d) 25.

4. Who helped develop a strategy of how to use the bomb to end the war in Japan?
(a) Robert Axelrod.
(b) John Nash.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) John von Neumann.

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

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

7. Who originally suggested the RAND Corporation as a research and development institute?
(a) President Truman.
(b) General Douglas MacArthur.
(c) Douglas Aircraft.
(d) I.A.S.

8. Besides Einstein, von Neumann was in the presence of such great thinkers as ____ at the IAS.
(a) Graham.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Alois Alzheimer.
(d) Edison.

9. Who was von Neumann's partner in the original development of game theory?
(a) Flood.
(b) Morgenstern.
(c) Nash.
(d) Godel.

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

11. Who developed a mathematical way to extend von Neumann's game theory beyond the original game theory insights?
(a) John Nash.
(b) Kurt Godel.
(c) Merrill Flood.
(d) David Hilbert.

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

13. Several famous RAND studies looked at how the public would respond to contact with aliens and life after what?
(a) A nuclear war.
(b) Chemical warfare.
(c) A near death experience.
(d) An alien abduction.

14. In Chapter 1 the author gives examples of hypothetical situations that deal with some kind of ___ problem, such as the two people in different rooms who have to decide whether to push a button.
(a) Scientific.
(b) Ethical.
(c) Legal.
(d) Mathematical.

15. When a game does not have a saddle point, what strategy must be used?
(a) Equal.
(b) Mixed.
(c) Maximum.
(d) Pure.

Short Answer Questions

1. RAND operations were located where?

2. In Chapter 6 one of von Neumann's RAND colleagues in the 1950s was mentioned as whom?

3. After what war did the United States engage in a prolonged nuclear arms race with another country?

4. What philosopher advocated a world government for peace?

5. Confessing before one's partner in prisoner's dilemma seems what?

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