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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) The Power of Equations.
(b) Men of Mathematics.
(c) The Math Wizard.
(d) The Geometry of Humankind.

2. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1951.

3. Where did Nash, his sister and friend rent a small apartment during Nash's second summer at RAND?
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) Phoenix.
(c) Santa Barbara.
(d) San Francisco.

4. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Could win the game.
(b) Would lose the game.
(c) Acted as they predicted.
(d) Acted unpredictably.

5. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Manifolds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?

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

3. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?

4. The first signs of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mental deterioration appeared in what year, according to the Prologue?

5. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?

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