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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) 23.
(c) 19.
(d) 38.

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

3. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?
(a) Solomon Lefschetz.
(b) John David Stier.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

4. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?
(a) Reinhard Selten.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) John Milnor.
(d) Jack Bricker.

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

6. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
(a) September.
(b) May.
(c) December.
(d) August.

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

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

9. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1953.

10. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Michael Jacob Nash.
(b) Robert Lewis Stier.
(c) John David Stier.
(d) Thomas Abraham Nash.

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

12. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) Ervin Thorson.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Henry Michael Temple.

13. How many faculty members from MIT belonged to a Communist Party cell and were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as described in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

14. 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.

15. 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) The Manhattan Project.
(c) The Roswell Project.
(d) Project Destruction.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?

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

4. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

5. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. born?

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