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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?
(a) November 25, 1935.
(b) October 19, 1940.
(c) June 13, 1928.
(d) January 2, 1913.

2. When was John von Neumann born?
(a) 1906.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1875.

3. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Thirty.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Nineteen.

4. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) David Gale.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

5. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?
(a) Project Destruction.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) Project Atomic.
(d) The Roswell Project.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

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

3. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics at what age?

5. Kriegspiel is German for what?

(see the answer key)

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