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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 was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Waitress.
(b) Librarian.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Actress.

2. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Ohio.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) New Mexico.

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

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

5. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Cambodia.
(c) China.
(d) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

2. When did John von Neumann die?

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

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

(see the answer key)

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