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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) David Gale.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Oskar Morgenstern.

3. 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?
(a) The Roswell Project.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) Project Atomic.
(d) Project Destruction.

4. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1955.

5. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Maine.
(c) Alaska.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John von Neumann die?

2. When was John von Neumann born?

3. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

4. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?

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

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