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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1955.

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

3. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?
(a) Foreign languages.
(b) Mathematics and Physics.
(c) Geology and Earth Sciences.
(d) Psychology.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?

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. The first signs of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mental deterioration appeared in what year, according to the Prologue?

5. Where was John von Neumann born?

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