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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1923.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1905.

3. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) David Gale.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Warren Ambrose.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a situation in which no player can improve his situation in game theory?

2. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?

3. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

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. On what date did Eleanor give birth to Nash's son in Chapter Twenty-Three?

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