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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?
(a) 27.
(b) 38.
(c) 23.
(d) 19.

2. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Louisiana.

3. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?
(a) 39.
(b) 12.
(c) 73.
(d) 27.

4. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash returned to Princeton to teach what while looking for a full-time position?
(a) Physics.
(b) Geometry.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Calculus.

5. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) John Milnor.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

6. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?
(a) Project Atomic.
(b) Project Destruction.
(c) The Roswell Project.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

7. 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.

8. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Would lose the game.
(b) Could win the game.
(c) Acted unpredictably.
(d) Acted as they predicted.

9. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

10. When was John von Neumann born?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1888.
(d) 1906.

11. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Game theory.
(b) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Manifolds.

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

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

14. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) The Geometry of Humankind.
(b) Men of Mathematics.
(c) The Power of Equations.
(d) The Math Wizard.

15. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1952.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?

4. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?

5. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

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