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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?
(a) Margaret Virginia Martin.
(b) Reinhard Selten.
(c) Ruth Hincks.
(d) Robert Lowell.

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

3. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1958.

4. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1967.

5. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?
(a) Everglades Energy.
(b) Adirondack Light.
(c) Appalachian Power.
(d) Pacific Gas and Electric.

6. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash didn't immediately secure a deferment from the draft but he had a delay until what date?
(a) May 11, 1952.
(b) June 30, 1951.
(c) February 15, 1950.
(d) August 9 1949.

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

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

9. In Chapter Twenty, Nash was challenged to solve the problem of what?
(a) The Manhattan Project.
(b) Game theory.
(c) Manifolds.
(d) The Pythagoreon Theorum.

10. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?
(a) A faculty tea.
(b) McAnderson's lecture.
(c) Student meetings.
(d) Church services.

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

12. Where is MIT located?
(a) Boston, Massachusets.
(b) Butte, Montana.
(c) Cambridge, Massachusetts.
(d) Billings, Montana.

13. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1941.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John von Neumann born?

2. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had relationships with how many men?

3. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

4. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

5. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

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