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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) John Milnor.
(d) Albert Tucker.

2. How many faculty members from MIT belonged to a Communist Party cell and were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as described in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Seven.
(d) Eleven.

3. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?
(a) The Pythagoreon Theorum.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) Manifolds.
(d) Game theory.

4. The first signs of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mental deterioration appeared in what year, according to the Prologue?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1959.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) The Math Wizard.
(b) The Power of Equations.
(c) The Geometry of Humankind.
(d) Men of Mathematics.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?

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

3. Where was John von Neumann born?

4. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?

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

(see the answer key)

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