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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?
(a) Psychology.
(b) Geology and Earth Sciences.
(c) Foreign languages.
(d) Mathematics and Physics.

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

7. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1941.

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

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

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

11. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Bluefield College.
(d) MIT.

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

13. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?
(a) Ruth Hincks.
(b) Reinhard Selten.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) Margaret Virginia Martin.

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

15. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Mormonism.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Scientology.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

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

5. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?

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