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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. What is the name of the son John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Alicia Nash?
(a) Robert Theodore Nash.
(b) Elliot Daniel Nash.
(c) Henry Nicolaus Nash.
(d) John Charles Martin Nash .

2. Where did Alicia's family first settle after coming to America?
(a) Seattle, Washington.
(b) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(c) Boston, Massachusetts.
(d) Charleston, South Carolina.

3. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?
(a) Fargo, North Dakota.
(b) Ashland, Oregon.
(c) West Medford, Massachusetts.
(d) Pueblo, Colorado.

4. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. marry Alicia Larde?
(a) Memphis, Tennessee.
(b) Salt Lake City, Utah.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Atlanta, Georgia.

5. In what year was Nash committed to a private psychiatric hospital near Princeton in Chapter Forty-Two?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1965.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nobel Prize was established in what year?

2. What poet was also a patient at the institution where Nash was held in Chapter Thirty-Six?

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?

4. In Chapter Thirty-Seven, Alicia and what friend rented a house while Nash was hospitalized?

5. Where in Europe did John Forbes Nash, Jr. decide to go at the end of Chapter Thirty-Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Nash's mental state described in Chapter Forty-Two after his release from the hospital?

2. How is the Nash's journey to Europe described in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What did they do upon arrival?

3. When had Nash previously been considered for the Nobel Prize, as described in Chapter Forty-Eight? Why had he not been nominated?

4. In what ways did Alicia attempt to help John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Thirty-Five? What were her thoughts about her husband at this time?

5. How is the relationship between Nash and Peter Sarnak described in Chapter Forty-Seven? How did they meet?

6. How was the work of Nash being used by the U.S. government in Chapter Forty-Nine?

7. What interaction did Alicia have with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Seven? What was Alicia's response?

8. What led to Nash's winning the Nobel Prize in Chapter Forty-Eight? What issues did the Royal Swedish Academy have with Nash?

9. How are Nash's career and personal life described in Chapter Thirty-Three?

10. Where was Nash living in Chapter Forty-Four? What happened to Nash after the death of his mother?

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