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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 is German for what?
(a) Barking dog.
(b) Automobile.
(c) War game.
(d) Sausage.

2. 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) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Seven.

3. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Thirty.

4. When was Joseph McCarthy born?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1892.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) The Geometry of Humankind.
(b) Men of Mathematics.
(c) The Math Wizard.
(d) The Power of Equations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?

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

4. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?

5. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?

(see the answer key)

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