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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?
(a) Mormonism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Scientology.

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(c) Bluefield College.
(d) MIT.

3. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Geology and Earth Sciences.
(c) Mathematics and Physics.
(d) Foreign languages.

4. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Georg von Rassewitz.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

3. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

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

5. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?

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