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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. meet Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) A church mass.
(b) A library.
(c) A bus stop.
(d) A Boston hospital.

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

5. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?
(a) The original object.
(b) The end object.
(c) The Intermediate object.
(d) A basic equation.

6. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A movie theatre.
(b) A library.
(c) A dentist's office.
(d) A bakery.

7. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Game theory.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Manifolds.

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

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

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

11. In Chapter Ten, Nash developed an equilibrium point that could apply to more than two people and wasn't necessarily what?
(a) A game that could be lost.
(b) A winnable game.
(c) Mathematically accurate.
(d) A zero-sum game.

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

13. 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) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) David Gale.

14. What refers to a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas?
(a) Varymath.
(b) Polymath.
(c) Multimath.
(d) Manymath.

15. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?
(a) Game theory.
(b) A zero-sum game.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Nash equilibrium.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did John von Neumann die?

2. On what date did the Korean War begin?

3. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?

5. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

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