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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Game theory involves competitive games between perfectly ____ and opposed players.
(a) Matched.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Equal.
(d) Rational.

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

4. Besides mathematics, von Neumann, according to details in Chapter 2, was also very knowledgeable in what area?
(a) English Literature.
(b) History.
(c) Biology.
(d) Religion.

5. Besides Russell, who else advocated for preventative war during the Cold War?
(a) Morgenstern.
(b) von Neumann.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Nash.

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

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

8. David Hilbert was a great ____.
(a) Physicist.
(b) Economist.
(c) Philosophy thinker.
(d) Mathematician.

9. RAND operations were located where?
(a) California.
(b) D.C.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Illinois.

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

11. In the 1950s and 1960s many viewed international conflict, and specifically ____ as a kind of prisoner's dilemma.
(a) Nuclear conflict.
(b) Human rights conflicts.
(c) Militia led conflicts.
(d) Political conflicts.

12. 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) Nash.
(b) Einstein.
(c) Russell.
(d) Oppenheimer.

13. 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) Ethical.
(b) Legal.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Scientific.

14. Kriegspiel is what is termed an "____" information game.
(a) Imperfect.
(b) Infinite.
(c) Calculated.
(d) Finite.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the divide the cake game the chooser seeks to minimize the ___ piece of cake the cutter will receive.

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

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

5. In Chapter 1 if neither loved one pushes their button by the time limit what happens?

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