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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?
(a) Psychic information.
(b) Perfect information.
(c) Incontrovertable evidence.
(d) Complete data.

2. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1942.

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

4. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1967.

5. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?
(a) Norman Shapley.
(b) Harlow Shapley.
(c) John David Shapley.
(d) Mark Shapley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas?

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

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?

4. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?

5. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

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