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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. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

2. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) John Milnor.

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

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

5. 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 winnable game.
(c) A game that could be lost.
(d) A zero-sum game.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

2. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?

3. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?

4. When was John von Neumann born?

5. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Nash move in Chapter Sixteen? What job did he take and with whom did he work?

2. What led to Nash's work with manifolds in Chapter Fifteen? What did his theorem state?

3. What does the author write about Nash's involvement with games in Chapter Six?

4. Why did Nash worry about the onset of the Korean War in Chapter Fourteen? What actions did he take?

5. How are John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s experiences in college described in Chapter Two?

6. How is the political atmosphere described in Chapter Nineteen? How did it affect the faculty at MIT?

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

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

9. How does the author describe the mathematics department at Princeton in Chapter Four? How was grading determined?

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

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