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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 Alicia's family first settle after coming to America?
(a) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(b) Boston, Massachusetts.
(c) Charleston, South Carolina.
(d) Seattle, Washington.

2. The first signs of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mental deterioration appeared in what year, according to the Prologue?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1959.

3. Alicia took a job where in Chapter Thirty-Five?
(a) Brandeis University.
(b) Carnegie Mellon University.
(c) MIT.
(d) Princeton University.

4. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Manifolds.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Game theory.
(d) Riemann's Hypothesis.

5. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Nineteen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Seventeen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?

2. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Thirty-One?

4. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?

5. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?

(see the answer key)

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