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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Actress.
(c) Librarian.
(d) Waitress.

3. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) Bluefield College.
(b) MIT.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The University of Chicago.

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

5. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) London.
(b) Cairo.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Los Angeles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had how many children?

2. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

3. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

4. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?

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

(see the answer key)

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