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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?
(a) Boeing.
(b) RCA.
(c) Douglas Aircraft Company.
(d) Cesna.

2. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Manifolds.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Game theory.

3. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) John David Stier.
(d) Solomon Lefschetz.

4. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?
(a) John David Shapley.
(b) Harlow Shapley.
(c) Norman Shapley.
(d) Mark Shapley.

5. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

1. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?

2. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?

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

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

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

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