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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 Chicken and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a madman strategy is used by one player the opposing player is more likely to do what?
(a) Cooperate.
(b) Defect.
(c) Confess.
(d) Swerve.

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

3. Who was Secretary of the Navy in 1950?
(a) Douglas MacArthur.
(b) Curtis LeMay.
(c) Francis Matthews.
(d) Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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

5. Who first suggested nuclear warfare as a game of chicken?
(a) Flood.
(b) Nash.
(c) von Neumann.
(d) Russell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before the game of chicken what game model did many believe nuclear warfare was like?

2. What war between the Allied and Axis powers was going on when von Neumann was invited to become part of the Manhattan Project?

3. Who had John Stuart Mill briefly as a tutor?

4. What was the name of the Russian spy working in Britain that helped leak key nuclear information to help Russia become nuclear capable quicker?

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

(see the answer key)

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