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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What poet was also a patient at the institution where Nash was held in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Harlow Shapley.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) Robert Lowell.

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

3. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?
(a) Antioch College.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Bluefield College.

4. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?
(a) The Ford Foundation.
(b) The International Mathematical Union.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?
(a) A zero-sum game.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Nash equilibrium.
(d) Game theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. Alicia found employment as what in Chapter Thirty-One?

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

3. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

4. What was the month and year that Nash and Alicia sailed to Europe in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

5. Who had provided a research position for Nash in Boston in Chapter Forty-Three?

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