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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Three.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

2. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?
(a) Game theory.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) The Pythagoreon Theorum.
(d) Manifolds.

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

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

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

6. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) The Power of Equations.
(b) Men of Mathematics.
(c) The Math Wizard.
(d) The Geometry of Humankind.

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

8. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Warren Ambrose.
(d) Oskar Morgenstern.

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

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

11. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Georg von Rassewitz.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) Albert Einstein.

12. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1955.

13. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) Bluefield College.
(b) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) MIT.

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

15. Kriegspiel is German for what?
(a) Sausage.
(b) Automobile.
(c) Barking dog.
(d) War game.

Short Answer Questions

1. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?

2. When was John von Neumann born?

3. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash returned to Princeton to teach what while looking for a full-time position?

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

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

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