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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1939.

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

4. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?
(a) Complete data.
(b) Psychic information.
(c) Perfect information.
(d) Incontrovertable evidence.

5. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1909.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Ten, Nash developed an equilibrium point that could apply to more than two people and wasn't necessarily what?

2. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?

3. When was John von Neumann born?

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

5. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?

(see the answer key)

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