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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Henry Michael Temple.
(c) Georg von Rassewitz.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

2. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Warren Ambrose.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

3. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Buddhism.

4. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) California.
(b) Maine.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Alaska.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1941.

Short Answer Questions

1. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

2. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash returned to Princeton to teach what while looking for a full-time position?

3. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?

4. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?

5. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?

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