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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Thirty.

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Georg von Rassewitz.

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

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

5. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) MIT.
(c) Bluefield College.
(d) The University of Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?

4. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?

5. In what year was John's sister Martha Nash born?

(see the answer key)

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