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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33 - 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Thirty-Two, Nash looked for another project in which to become involved and decided to tackle the problem posed by what?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(c) The Manhattan Project.
(d) Game theory.

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

3. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1930.

4. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Acted as they predicted.
(b) Could win the game.
(c) Would lose the game.
(d) Acted unpredictably.

5. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

Short Answer Questions

1. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?

2. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?

3. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?

4. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?

5. Alicia took a job where in Chapter Thirty-Five?

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