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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Project Atomic.
(b) The Roswell Project.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) Project Destruction.

2. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?
(a) Appalachian Power.
(b) Adirondack Light.
(c) Pacific Gas and Electric.
(d) Everglades Energy.

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

4. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1920.

5. When was John von Neumann born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1906.
(d) 1903.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?

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

3. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

4. 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?

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

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