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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1854.

3. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1913.

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) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) John Milnor.

5. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?
(a) Reinhard Selten.
(b) Margaret Virginia Martin.
(c) Ruth Hincks.
(d) Robert Lowell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?

2. The department chairman relieved Nash of his teaching duties for how long in Chapter Thirty-Five?

3. What month was it when Nash traveled to East Germany in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

4. The hospital where Nash was institutionalized in Chapter Thirty-Six received permission for a court to extend Nash's stay for an additional how many days?

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

(see the answer key)

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