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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38 - 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what division did Nash work at New York University in Chapter Thirty?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) The Antioch Institute of Technology.
(c) The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
(d) The Harvard Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

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

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

4. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1905.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1914.
(d) 1909.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s second son born?

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?

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

4. Where did the Nash's move after Paris in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

5. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty?

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