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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?
(a) Foreign languages.
(b) Geology and Earth Sciences.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Mathematics and Physics.

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) Complete data.
(b) Incontrovertable evidence.
(c) Psychic information.
(d) Perfect information.

3. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) MIT.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The University of Chicago.

4. 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 Atomic.
(b) The Roswell Project.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) Project Destruction.

5. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Scientology.
(c) Episcopalian.
(d) Mormonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?

2. Kriegspiel is German for what?

3. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

5. In what year was John's sister Martha Nash born?

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