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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. Who had provided a research position for Nash in Boston in Chapter Forty-Three?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Reinhard Selten.
(c) Georg von Rassewitz.
(d) Norman Levinson.

2. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) John Milnor.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) Albert Tucker.

3. Where did Sylvia Nasar earn a Masters' degree in Economics?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Brandeis University.
(c) New York University.
(d) Carnegie Mellon University.

4. When was the film adaptation of A Beautiful Mind released?
(a) 2006.
(b) 1998.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2001.

5. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?
(a) Manifolds.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) The Pythagoreon Theorum.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom did Nash share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?

3. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?

4. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?

5. The Nobel Prize was established in what year?

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