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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?
(a) Norman Steenrod.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) Solomon Lefschetz.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to a person whose expertise spans a significant number of different subject areas?

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

3. When was the original "Kriegsspiel" game developed?

4. On what date did the Korean War begin?

5. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?

Short Essay Questions

1. What led to Nash's theorem on manifolds in Chapter Twenty? What was the theory known as?

2. When was Nash's first son born? How did Nash respond to his son's birth in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. How are John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s experiences in college described in Chapter Two?

4. Where did Nash meet Eleanor? How is their relationship described in Chapter Twenty-Three?

5. How old was Nash when he arrived at Princeton? What year was it? In what areas was Princeton building its faculty at this time?

6. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. grow up? How were Nash's parents described in Chapter One?

7. What paper does the author describe that Nash wrote in Chapter Nine? What did the paper examine?

8. Where did Nash move in Chapter Sixteen? What job did he take and with whom did he work?

9. What work did Nash do during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? With whom did he work?

10. How was Nash perceived by faculty and his peers at Princeton in Chapter Five?

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