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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1939.

3. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?
(a) 27.
(b) 38.
(c) 23.
(d) 19.

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

5. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?
(a) A faculty tea.
(b) Church services.
(c) Student meetings.
(d) McAnderson's lecture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

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

3. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?

4. When was John von Neumann born?

5. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?

(see the answer key)

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