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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?
(a) Betsy.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Margaret.
(d) Rebecca.

3. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had how many children?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

4. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Solomon Lefschetz.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

6. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Nineteen.

7. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1955.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) China.
(d) Cambodia.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?

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

4. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?

5. Where is MIT located?

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