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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. RAND Corporation first formed to offer research and analysis to the United States armed forces by what American aerospace manufacturer?
(a) Cesna.
(b) Douglas Aircraft Company.
(c) Boeing.
(d) RCA.

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

3. Where is MIT located?
(a) Billings, Montana.
(b) Boston, Massachusets.
(c) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(d) Butte, Montana.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

2. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. meet Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?

4. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

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. How is Nash's relationship with Jack Bricker described in Chapter Twenty-Four?

3. How was John Forbes Nash, Jr. described as a child in Chapter One? When did he develop an interest in mathematics?

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

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

6. When was Nash's first son born? How did Nash respond to his son's birth in Chapter Twenty-Three?

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

8. How is Nash's relationship to Lloyd Shapley described in Chapter Eleven?

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

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

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