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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50 and epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. From what institution did Sylvia Nasar graduate in 1970?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) Antioch College.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Nash met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Manifolds.
(c) Game theory.
(d) Riemann's Hypothesis.

4. The institution Nash to which was involuntarily admitted in Chapter Thirty-Six was affiliated with what institution of higher education?
(a) Harvard Medical School.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) New York University.

5. In what year did Nash win the Leroy P. Steele Prize?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1989.
(d) 2003.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. For what division did Nash work at New York University in Chapter Thirty?

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

4. 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?

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

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