A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Sylvia Nasar
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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Quiz | Eight Week Quiz D

Sylvia Nasar
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 123 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is MIT located?
(a) Butte, Montana.
(b) Billings, Montana.
(c) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(d) Boston, Massachusets.

2. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?
(a) Warren Ambrose.
(b) Jack Bricker.
(c) Solomon Lefschetz.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

3. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Alaska.
(b) California.
(c) Hawaii.
(d) Maine.

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

5. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A dentist's office.
(b) A library.
(c) A movie theatre.
(d) A bakery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?

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

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

4. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

5. When was John von Neumann born?

(see the answer key)

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