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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did the Korean War begin?
(a) May 4, 1935.
(b) September 22, 1942.
(c) June 25, 1950.
(d) December 8, 1958.

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) Bluefield College.
(b) MIT.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The University of Chicago.

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1948.

4. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A movie theatre.
(b) A library.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A dentist's office.

5. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?
(a) Reinhard Selten.
(b) Margaret Virginia Martin.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) Ruth Hincks.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did Nash, his sister and friend rent a small apartment during Nash's second summer at RAND?

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

5. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?

(see the answer key)

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