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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1952.
2. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Bluefield College.
(d) MIT.
3. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) John David Stier.
(d) Solomon Lefschetz.
4. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Nineteen.
5. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) Warren Ambrose.
(b) David Gale.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
2. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?
3. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?
4. What profession did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother hold before she married?
5. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?
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