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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Complete data.
(b) Incontrovertable evidence.
(c) Psychic information.
(d) Perfect information.

2. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) September, 1950.
(b) March, 1953.
(c) December, 1949.
(d) April, 1952.

3. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1950.

4. Kriegspiel is German for what?
(a) Barking dog.
(b) Automobile.
(c) War game.
(d) Sausage.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. meet Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

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

4. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?

5. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?

(see the answer key)

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