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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the last name of Eleanor, the woman with whom Nash had an affair in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Stier.
(b) Flexner.
(c) Harsanyi.
(d) Morgenstern.

2. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) Ervin Thorson.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Oskar Morgenstern.

3. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1946.
(d) 1939.

4. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

5. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?
(a) Eight.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Zero.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

2. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

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

4. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

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

(see the answer key)

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