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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?
(a) Zero.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Three.

2. What is a situation in which no player can improve his situation in game theory?
(a) A zero-sum game.
(b) Stalemate.
(c) Equilibrium.
(d) End game.

3. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Two years.
(b) Five years.
(c) Twelve years.
(d) Twenty-four years.

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

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

6. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1960.

7. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1950.

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

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

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

11. Where is MIT located?
(a) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(b) Boston, Massachusets.
(c) Billings, Montana.
(d) Butte, Montana.

12. On what date did the Korean War begin?
(a) May 4, 1935.
(b) June 25, 1950.
(c) September 22, 1942.
(d) December 8, 1958.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?

2. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?

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