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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Alicia found employment as what in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) A calculus professor.
(b) An aerospace engineer.
(c) A psychologist.
(d) A physics researcher.

2. Alicia's family had been prominent and wealthy where, as described in Chapter Twenty-Six?
(a) Southeastern Asia.
(b) Central Asia.
(c) Africa.
(d) Central America.

3. The hospital where Nash was institutionalized in Chapter Thirty-Six received permission for a court to extend Nash's stay for an additional how many days?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Forty.
(d) Seventy-seven.

4. When did Jürgen Moser die?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1983.

5. To what private psychiatric hospital near Princeton was Nash committed in Chapter Forty-Two?
(a) The Peace Clinic.
(b) McLean Hospital.
(c) The Carrier Clinic.
(d) Trenton State Hospital.

6. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) 45.
(b) 26.
(c) 30.
(d) 37.

7. Who had provided a research position for Nash in Boston in Chapter Forty-Three?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) Reinhard Selten.
(c) Georg von Rassewitz.
(d) Norman Levinson.

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

9. With what was John Forbes Nash, Jr. diagnosed during his first institutionalization in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Brain cancer.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Paranoid schizophrenia.
(d) Epilepsy.

10. Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in what area?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(c) Game theory.
(d) Manifolds.

11. What is the name of the locked facility for men where Nash was contained in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Bowditch Hall.
(b) Evergreen Hall.
(c) Jacobson's Hall.
(d) Miller Hall.

12. For what division did Nash work at New York University in Chapter Thirty?
(a) The Antioch Institute of Technology.
(b) The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
(c) The Harvard Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
(d) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.

13. Luxembourg is bordered by Belgium, France, and what country?
(a) Germany.
(b) Poland.
(c) Greenland.
(d) Spain.

14. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1885.
(c) 1907.
(d) 1863.

15. In Chapter Thirty-Two, Nash looked for another project in which to become involved and decided to tackle the problem posed by what?
(a) The Manhattan Project.
(b) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(c) Game theory.
(d) The continuum hypothesis.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the son John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Alicia Nash?

3. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?

4. When was the first Fields Medal awarded?

5. Where was Jürgen Moser born?

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