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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who conducted an experiment to see how real people would respond in the prisoner's dilemma game model?
(a) von Neumann.
(b) Godel.
(c) Flood.
(d) Nash.

3. The Manhattan Project was a secret U.S. government program to build what?
(a) A computer guided missile.
(b) An atomic bomb.
(c) A bio-weapon.
(d) A hydrogen bomb.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What philosopher advocated a world government for peace?

2. What was the first name of von Neumann's second wife?

3. Scientists working on the Manhattan Project were in a rush to complete the project before Russia and ____ could complete their similar projects.

4. 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?

5. Bertrand Russell is a ___.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are zero-sum games?

2. How did von Neumann end up at Princeton after earning his PhD in mathematics?

3. What kind of studies did RAND conduct?

4. Who helped Flood conduct his 100 prisoner's dilemmas experiments?

5. What was the Manhattan Project?

6. Why do Poker and Baseball involve mixed strategies?

7. What is a minimax solution and saddle points?

8. What is Kriegspiel?

9. Why did Bertrand Russell suggest and believe in the merits of preemptive nuclear war?

10. What was the Princeton social scene like while von Neumann was at IAS?

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