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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?
(a) 8.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 23.

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?
(a) October 19, 1940.
(b) November 25, 1935.
(c) January 2, 1913.
(d) June 13, 1928.

4. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) Game theory.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Manifolds.

5. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Twenty-four years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Two years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?

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

3. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

4. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?

5. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was Nash perceived by faculty and his peers at Princeton in Chapter Five?

2. Where did Nash meet Eleanor? How is their relationship described in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. How does the author describe John von Neumann in Chapter Seven?

4. How is Nash's thesis for Princeton described in Chapter Ten? What significance did it have?

5. Who accompanied Nash in his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? Where did he live?

6. What led to Nash's theorem on manifolds in Chapter Twenty? What was the theory known as?

7. How was John Forbes Nash, Jr. described as a child in Chapter One? When did he develop an interest in mathematics?

8. What work did Nash do during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? With whom did he work?

9. Where did Nash move in Chapter Sixteen? What job did he take and with whom did he work?

10. Why did Nash worry about the onset of the Korean War in Chapter Fourteen? What actions did he take?

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