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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Solomon Lefschetz.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Georg von Rassewitz.
(b) Henry Michael Temple.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Albert Einstein.

3. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
(d) China.

4. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1913.
(d) 1920.

5. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Alaska.
(b) Maine.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?

2. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?

3. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?

4. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?

5. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

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