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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33 - 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was John von Neumann born?
(a) 1903.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1906.

2. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?
(a) Betsy.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Rebecca.
(d) Margaret.

3. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?
(a) The International Mathematical Union.
(b) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Ford Foundation.

4. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Solomon Lefschetz.
(d) John David Stier.

5. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Could win the game.
(b) Would lose the game.
(c) Acted as they predicted.
(d) Acted unpredictably.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the Korean War begin?

2. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?

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

4. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. born?

5. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

(see the answer key)

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