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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1955.

2. 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?
(a) Project Destruction.
(b) Project Atomic.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) The Roswell Project.

3. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?
(a) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(b) Bangor, Maine.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Miami, Florida.

4. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) Albert Tucker.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Henry Michael Temple.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?

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

3. What refers to a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas?

4. Where was John von Neumann born?

5. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

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