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

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

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?
(a) September.
(b) May.
(c) August.
(d) December.

4. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1939.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?

2. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?

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

4. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

5. Where was John von Neumann born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What work did Nash do during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? With whom did he work?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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