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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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?
(a) Incontrovertable evidence.
(b) Psychic information.
(c) Complete data.
(d) Perfect information.

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s maternal grandfather held what profession?
(a) Minister.
(b) Banker.
(c) Physician.
(d) Lawyer.

4. In what year was John's sister Martha Nash born?
(a) 1907.
(b) 1918.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1930.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?
(a) October 19, 1940.
(b) June 13, 1928.
(c) January 2, 1913.
(d) November 25, 1935.

6. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1953.

7. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A dentist's office.
(c) A movie theatre.
(d) A library.

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

9. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?
(a) Appalachian Power.
(b) Everglades Energy.
(c) Adirondack Light.
(d) Pacific Gas and Electric.

10. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Miami, Florida.
(c) St. Louis, Missouri.
(d) Cambridge, Massachusetts.

11. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?
(a) September, 1950.
(b) April, 1952.
(c) March, 1953.
(d) December, 1949.

12. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1948.

13. When was Joseph McCarthy born?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1892.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1916.

14. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?
(a) RCA.
(b) Boeing.
(c) Douglas Aircraft Company.
(d) Cesna.

15. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) China.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The first signs of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mental deterioration appeared in what year, according to the Prologue?

2. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?

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

5. Where was John von Neumann born?

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