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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10-13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas?
(a) Manymath.
(b) Multimath.
(c) Polymath.
(d) Varymath.

2. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Betsy.
(d) Rebecca.

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

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. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?
(a) A zero-sum game.
(b) Game theory.
(c) Nash equilibrium.
(d) The continuum hypothesis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. Where was John von Neumann born?

5. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

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