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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?
(a) Appalachian Power.
(b) Everglades Energy.
(c) Adirondack Light.
(d) Pacific Gas and Electric.

4. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?
(a) Ohio.
(b) New Mexico.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Wisconsin.

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

6. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?
(a) 1956.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1957.

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

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

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) 1892.
(b) 1916.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1908.

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

12. What profession did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother hold before she married?
(a) Bus driver.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Nurse.

13. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Budapest.
(c) London.
(d) Cairo.

14. On what date did the Korean War begin?
(a) December 8, 1958.
(b) May 4, 1935.
(c) June 25, 1950.
(d) September 22, 1942.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

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

3. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?

5. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

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