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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) MIT.
(d) The University of Chicago.

2. What is a situation in which no player can improve his situation in game theory?
(a) A zero-sum game.
(b) End game.
(c) Equilibrium.
(d) Stalemate.

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

4. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) David Gale.

5. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?
(a) 27.
(b) 12.
(c) 39.
(d) 73.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is MIT located?

3. On what date did the Korean War begin?

4. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?

(see the answer key)

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