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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38 - 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?
(a) John Milnor.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

3. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) China.
(c) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
(d) Cambodia.

4. For what division did Nash work at New York University in Chapter Thirty?
(a) The Antioch Institute of Technology.
(b) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(c) The Harvard Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
(d) The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

5. Nash declined the offer of a chair at the University of Chicago saying that he was becoming the emperor of what, in Chapter Thirty-Four?
(a) Mercury.
(b) Australia.
(c) Antarctica.
(d) China.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?

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

4. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?

5. 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?

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