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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) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) David Gale.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

2. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Twelve years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twenty-four years.

3. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1951.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1967.

4. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(b) Manifolds.
(c) Game theory.
(d) The continuum hypothesis.

5. 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?
(a) Seven.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Eleven.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?

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

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

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 the mathematics department at Princeton in Chapter Four? How was grading determined?

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

5. Why did Nash refuse a permanent position at RAND in Chapter Fourteen? Where did he go instead?

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

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

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

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

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

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