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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. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1956.
(d) 1957.

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

3. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Georg von Rassewitz.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

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

5. On what date did the Korean War begin?
(a) June 25, 1950.
(b) December 8, 1958.
(c) May 4, 1935.
(d) September 22, 1942.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

2. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?

3. Where did Nash, his sister and friend rent a small apartment during Nash's second summer at RAND?

4. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the author write about Nash's involvement with games in Chapter Six?

3. What became of the meeting between John Forbes Nash, Jr. and John von Neumann in Chapter Ten?

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

5. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. grow up? How were Nash's parents described in Chapter One?

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

7. How are John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s experiences in college described in Chapter Two?

8. How old was Nash when he arrived at Princeton? What year was it? In what areas was Princeton building its faculty at this time?

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

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

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