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

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

3. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Solomon Lefschetz.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Oskar Morgenstern.

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

5. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) California.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?

2. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?

3. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?

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

5. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How was Nash perceived by faculty and his peers at Princeton in Chapter Five?

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

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

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

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

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

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