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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18 - 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?
(a) August 9 1949.
(b) May 11, 1952.
(c) June 30, 1951.
(d) February 15, 1950.

4. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1923.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1905.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?

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

3. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?

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

5. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

(see the answer key)

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