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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50 and epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Nash and Alicia arrive in London in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) July 18, 1959.
(b) July 29, 1960.
(c) June 27, 1958.
(d) August 4, 1959.

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

3. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1885.

4. With whom did Nash share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?
(a) Reinhard Selten and John Milnor.
(b) David Gale and Norman Steenrod.
(c) Norman Steenrod and John Harsanyi.
(d) Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.

5. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Georg von Rassewitz.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Henry Michael Temple.

Short Answer Questions

1. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?

2. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty?

3. Where did Alicia go upon returning to the United States in Chapter Thirty-Nine?

4. What poet was also a patient at the institution where Nash was held in Chapter Thirty-Six?

5. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

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