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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38 - 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the month and year that Nash and Alicia sailed to Europe in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) April, 1958.
(b) July, 1959.
(c) September, 1960.
(d) August, 1961.

2. Nash and Alicia sailed on what ship in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) The Water Dog.
(b) The King James.
(c) The Queen Mary.
(d) The Wooden Fish.

3. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) Henry Michael Temple.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?

2. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

3. In Chapter Forty, Virginia and who traveled to Princeton, at Alicia's request?

4. Where did Alicia meet John Forbes Nash, Jr., after she had been a student of his in Chapter Twenty-Six?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?

(see the answer key)

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