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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?
(a) Nash equilibrium.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Game theory.
(d) A zero-sum game.

2. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) London.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Budapest.

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

4. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?
(a) Ashland, Oregon.
(b) West Medford, Massachusetts.
(c) Pueblo, Colorado.
(d) Fargo, North Dakota.

5. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Twenty-four years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Five years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

2. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

3. How many faculty members from MIT belonged to a Communist Party cell and were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as described in Chapter Nineteen?

4. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?

5. What is the last name of Eleanor, the woman with whom Nash had an affair in Chapter Twenty-Three?

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