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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. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A movie theatre.
(b) A dentist's office.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A library.

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

3. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Margaret Virginia Martin.
(c) Ruth Hincks.
(d) Reinhard Selten.

4. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) The International Mathematical Union.
(c) New York University.
(d) The Ford Foundation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What profession did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother hold before she married?

2. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

3. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?

4. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who accompanied Nash in his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? Where did he live?

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

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

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