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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33 - 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had how many children?
(a) One.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

2. 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) Antarctica.
(c) China.
(d) Australia.

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

4. How many pages was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis in Chapter Ten?
(a) 73.
(b) 27.
(c) 39.
(d) 12.

5. In what month did Alicia decide to have Nash committed in Chapter Thirty-Five?
(a) November.
(b) April.
(c) July.
(d) January.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?

2. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?

3. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?

4. In Chapter Twenty-Eight, Nash spent the summer of 1956 where?

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

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