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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s maternal grandfather held what profession?
(a) Physician.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Minister.
(d) Banker.

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

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

4. What is the last name of Eleanor, the woman with whom Nash had an affair in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Harsanyi.
(b) Morgenstern.
(c) Flexner.
(d) Stier.

5. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?
(a) Jack Bricker.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) John Milnor.
(d) Reinhard Selten.

6. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?
(a) The Ford Foundation.
(b) New York University.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The International Mathematical Union.

7. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) John Milnor.
(b) Albert Tucker.
(c) Warren Ambrose.
(d) Robert Lowell.

8. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twenty-four years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twelve years.

9. In Chapter Ten, Nash developed an equilibrium point that could apply to more than two people and wasn't necessarily what?
(a) A zero-sum game.
(b) A winnable game.
(c) A game that could be lost.
(d) Mathematically accurate.

10. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. meet Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) A church mass.
(b) A library.
(c) A Boston hospital.
(d) A bus stop.

11. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Cynthia.
(c) Betsy.
(d) Rebecca.

12. When was Lloyd Shapley born?
(a) 1914.
(b) 1905.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1909.

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

14. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) MIT.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The University of Chicago.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?

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

3. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?

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

5. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?

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