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

2. What course topic was von Neumann invited to teach at Princeton?
(a) Probability and Statistics.
(b) Quantum theory.
(c) Topology.
(d) Physics.

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

4. When the equilibrium solution is used in the prisoner's dilemma game model it leads to mutual ____.
(a) Benefits.
(b) Cooperation.
(c) Punishment.
(d) Defection.

5. 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) Fed.
(b) Starved.
(c) Saved.
(d) Killed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of summer at RAND one of the employees would watch what people would ____ when they left.

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

4. In prisoner's dilemma, if either criminal confesses before the other the police promise to do what?

5. Which game was popular in the IAS lunch rooms?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does von Neumann's game theory relate to economics?

2. What were the results of Flood's experimental prisoner's dilemmas?

3. Why did Russell and von Neumann advocate preventative war during the Cold War?

4. What was the RAND Corporation?

5. What was the Manhattan Project?

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

7. What is the IAS?

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

9. Who is Bertrand Russell?

10. Who originally suggested the RAND corporation and for what purpose?

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