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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Jack Bricker.
(c) Reinhard Selten.
(d) John Milnor.

3. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?
(a) A basic equation.
(b) The original object.
(c) The end object.
(d) The Intermediate object.

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1954.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1960.

5. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?
(a) 19.
(b) 38.
(c) 23.
(d) 27.

Short Answer Questions

1. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?

2. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?

3. What does IMU stand for?

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

5. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?

(see the answer key)

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