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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Maine.
(c) California.
(d) Alaska.

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

3. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) David Gale.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

4. 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.

5. On what date did Eleanor give birth to Nash's son in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) November 4, 1955.
(b) June 19, 1953.
(c) May 12, 1952.
(d) October 31, 1951.

6. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?
(a) 13.
(b) 8.
(c) 23.
(d) 6.

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

8. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1854.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1917.

9. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?
(a) February 15, 1950.
(b) May 11, 1952.
(c) June 30, 1951.
(d) August 9 1949.

10. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?
(a) Solomon Lefschetz.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Jack Bricker.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

11. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. born?
(a) Sierra City, California.
(b) Tacoma, Washington.
(c) Bluefield, West Virginia.
(d) Chicago, Illinois.

12. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Waitress.
(c) Actress.
(d) Nurse.

13. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?
(a) June 4, 1919.
(b) April 13, 1933.
(c) May 28, 1927.
(d) September 6, 1924.

14. 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) Complete data.
(b) Incontrovertable evidence.
(c) Psychic information.
(d) Perfect information.

15. When did Joseph McCarthy die?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1971.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?

2. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?

3. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

4. On what date did the Korean War begin?

5. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

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