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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
(a) December.
(b) August.
(c) May.
(d) September.

2. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1951.

3. In what year was John's sister Martha Nash born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1918.
(d) 1930.

4. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) John Milnor.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Joseph McCarthy die?

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

3. Where was John von Neumann born?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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