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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) John Milnor.
(c) Reinhard Selten.
(d) Jack Bricker.

2. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Game theory.
(b) Manifolds.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Riemann's Hypothesis.

3. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?
(a) 1812.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1901.

4. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Albert Tucker.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

5. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Georg von Rassewitz.
(d) Albert Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?

2. In Chapter Thirty, Nash decided to return to MIT because of what?

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

4. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?

5. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?

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