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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50 and epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where in New York did John Forbes Nash, Jr. rent an apartment in Chapter Twenty-Nine?
(a) SoHo.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) Greenwich Village.
(d) The Upper East Side.

2. Paul Cohen was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of what?
(a) The continuum hypothesis.
(b) The Manhattan Project.
(c) Game theory.
(d) Manifolds.

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

4. When did John von Neumann die?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1957.
(d) 1951.

5. Nash invented a game of strategy at Princeton and what fellow student made the board for the game?
(a) Lloyd Shapley.
(b) Warren Ambrose.
(c) Oskar Morgenstern.
(d) David Gale.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Nash's colleagues began to suspect that something was wrong when he talked about aliens from outer space communicating with him through what?

2. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. During his first semester at Princeton, Nash would arrange his morning walk so he could see whom taking his morning walk?

4. In game theory, what describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game?

5. Nash and Alicia had their son committed where in Chapter Fifty?

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