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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents marry?
(a) May 28, 1927.
(b) June 4, 1919.
(c) September 6, 1924.
(d) April 13, 1933.

2. Who was Lloyd Shapley's father?
(a) John David Shapley.
(b) Norman Shapley.
(c) Harlow Shapley.
(d) Mark Shapley.

3. In what year was John's sister Martha Nash born?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1930.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1918.

4. What refers to a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II?
(a) Project Atomic.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) The Roswell Project.
(d) Project Destruction.

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

6. 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?
(a) Incontrovertable evidence.
(b) Perfect information.
(c) Complete data.
(d) Psychic information.

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

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

9. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Georg von Rassewitz.

10. When was John von Neumann born?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1906.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1903.

11. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1950.
(c) 1939.
(d) 1957.

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

13. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Ervin Thorson.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

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

15. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?
(a) Foreign languages.
(b) Mathematics and Physics.
(c) Geology and Earth Sciences.
(d) Psychology.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?

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

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

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

5. In Chapter Ten, Nash developed an equilibrium point that could apply to more than two people and wasn't necessarily what?

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