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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1957.

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

5. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Lloyd Shapley.
(d) David Gale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a situation in which no player can improve his situation in game theory?

2. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?

4. 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?

5. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s reputation in his second year of college, as described in Chapter Two? Where did he decide to go to graduate school?

2. What paper does the author describe that Nash wrote in Chapter Nine? What did the paper examine?

3. How does the author describe John von Neumann in Chapter Seven?

4. What led to Nash's theorem on manifolds in Chapter Twenty? What was the theory known as?

5. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. grow up? How were Nash's parents described in Chapter One?

6. To what faculty members was Nash most closely associated at Princeton, as described by the author in Chapter Five?

7. How does the author describe the romantic life of John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-One?

8. How is Nash's thesis for Princeton described in Chapter Ten? What significance did it have?

9. What is related regarding game theory in Chapter Eight? What important book changed the way that game theory was perceived?

10. When did Nash begin working for RAND? How did his work there influence his thinking?

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