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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 30 - 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What year was it when Nash chose who he wanted to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) 1958.
(b) 1949.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1942.

2. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) Maine.
(c) California.
(d) Alaska.

3. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Two years.
(b) Twelve years.
(c) Five years.
(d) Twenty-four years.

4. When was Jürgen Moser born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1928.

5. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) Game theory.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Manifolds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between the ages of twenty-four and twenty-nine, Nash had how many children?

2. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?

3. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

5. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?

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