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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 42-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Nash travel to visit a cousin in Chapter Forty-Three?
(a) California.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Arkansas.

2. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Carnegie Mellon University.

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

4. In Chapter Ten, Nash developed an equilibrium point that could apply to more than two people and wasn't necessarily what?
(a) A zero-sum game.
(b) A game that could be lost.
(c) Mathematically accurate.
(d) A winnable game.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
(a) December.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) May.

Short Answer Questions

1. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?

2. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?

3. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

4. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?

(see the answer key)

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