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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Kriegspiel is German for what?
(a) Barking dog.
(b) War game.
(c) Automobile.
(d) Sausage.

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

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1952.

5. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1920.

Short Answer Questions

1. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?

2. On what date did the Korean War begin?

3. When was John von Neumann born?

4. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?

5. Where is MIT located?

(see the answer key)

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