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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-25.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first signs of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mental deterioration appeared in what year, according to the Prologue?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1948.

2. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?
(a) 27.
(b) 23.
(c) 38.
(d) 19.

3. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?
(a) John David Stier.
(b) Solomon Lefschetz.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

4. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Louisiana.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Ohio.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Lloyd Shapley born?

3. Where was Lloyd Shapley from?

4. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?

5. Nash presented a talk on his work at the International Congress of Mathematics when in Chapter Fifteen?

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