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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1920.

2. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1905.
(d) 1914.

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

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

5. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Jack Bricker.
(d) Solomon Lefschetz.

6. Where did Nash, his sister and friend rent a small apartment during Nash's second summer at RAND?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Santa Barbara.

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

8. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Thomas Abraham Nash.
(b) Robert Lewis Stier.
(c) John David Stier.
(d) Michael Jacob Nash.

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

10. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1943.

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

12. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?
(a) September 6, 1924.
(b) April 13, 1933.
(c) May 28, 1927.
(d) June 4, 1919.

13. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?
(a) 6.
(b) 13.
(c) 8.
(d) 23.

14. 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.

15. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?
(a) Three.
(b) Eight.
(c) Zero.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?

2. When was John von Neumann born?

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

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

5. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

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