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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1939.

2. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A library.
(b) A bakery.
(c) A movie theatre.
(d) A dentist's office.

3. How many faculty members from MIT belonged to a Communist Party cell and were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as described in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Seven.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Georg von Rassewitz.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the last name of Eleanor, the woman with whom Nash had an affair in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

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?

5. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?

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