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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?
(a) Psychic information.
(b) Incontrovertable evidence.
(c) Perfect information.
(d) Complete data.

3. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) London.
(c) Cairo.
(d) Budapest.

4. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Manifolds.

5. 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) Warren Ambrose.
(d) David Gale.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s maternal grandfather held what profession?

3. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

4. Kriegspiel is German for what?

5. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

(see the answer key)

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