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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) Solomon Lefschetz.

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) Men of Mathematics.
(b) The Geometry of Humankind.
(c) The Math Wizard.
(d) The Power of Equations.

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
(a) May.
(b) August.
(c) September.
(d) December.

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

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) MIT.
(c) Bluefield College.
(d) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s maternal grandfather held what profession?

4. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?

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

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