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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What profession did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother hold before she married?
(a) Teacher.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Bus driver.

2. What refers to a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas?
(a) Manymath.
(b) Polymath.
(c) Varymath.
(d) Multimath.

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

4. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) John Milnor.

5. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?
(a) St. Louis, Missouri.
(b) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(c) Miami, Florida.
(d) Bangor, Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

2. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?

3. Kriegspiel is German for what?

4. On what date did the Korean War begin?

5. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?

(see the answer key)

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