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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?
(a) Everglades Energy.
(b) Adirondack Light.
(c) Appalachian Power.
(d) Pacific Gas and Electric.

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
(a) December.
(b) May.
(c) September.
(d) August.

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

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

5. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?
(a) The Pythagoreon Theorum.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) Manifolds.

6. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?
(a) May 11, 1952.
(b) June 30, 1951.
(c) February 15, 1950.
(d) August 9 1949.

7. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
(a) Warren Ambrose.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Oskar Morgenstern.

8. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) March, 1953.
(b) April, 1952.
(c) December, 1949.
(d) September, 1950.

9. Kriegspiel is German for what?
(a) War game.
(b) Barking dog.
(c) Automobile.
(d) Sausage.

10. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) Cairo.
(b) London.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Budapest.

11. When was Joseph McCarthy born?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1916.

12. 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.

13. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Nineteen.

14. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1941.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date did the Korean War begin?

3. 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?

4. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

5. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?

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