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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 42-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was John von Neumann born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1903.

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

3. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Georg von Rassewitz.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

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

5. What year was it in Chapter Forty-Four?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?

2. On what date was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s second son born?

3. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Thirty-One?

4. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?

5. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?

(see the answer key)

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