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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Manifolds.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Game theory.

2. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?
(a) February 15, 1950.
(b) June 30, 1951.
(c) August 9 1949.
(d) May 11, 1952.

3. When was Joseph McCarthy born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1875.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1892.

4. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Acted unpredictably.
(b) Would lose the game.
(c) Acted as they predicted.
(d) Could win the game.

5. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) John David Stier.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Solomon Lefschetz.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?

3. When was John von Neumann born?

4. What profession did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother hold before she married?

5. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?

(see the answer key)

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