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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. When was Alicia Larde born?
(a) September 28, 1926.
(b) June 9, 1930.
(c) May 17, 1931.
(d) January 1, 1933.

2. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?
(a) 1863.
(b) 1907.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1930.

3. Where in Europe did John Forbes Nash, Jr. decide to go at the end of Chapter Thirty-Seven?
(a) Paris.
(b) Oslo.
(c) London.
(d) Zurich.

4. Where did Alicia take a job in New York after returning to the U.S. in Chapter Thirty-Nine?
(a) RCA.
(b) FBI.
(c) MIA.
(d) JVC.

5. In what year was Nash awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize for his discovery of non-cooperative equilibria?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month did Alicia decide to have Nash committed in Chapter Thirty-Five?

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

3. Where did Alicia go to visit a cousin of hers in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

4. By what month did Nash begin having problems again and try to secure a position in France in Chapter Forty-Two?

5. To what private psychiatric hospital near Princeton was Nash committed in Chapter Forty-Two?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Nash spend the summer of 1956? What confrontation did he have with his father during this time?

2. How is John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Alicia described in Chapter Thirty-One? What were peoples' impressions of Alicia?

3. How old was Nash in Chapter Thirty-One? How did he feel about his career at this point?

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

5. 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?

6. Where did the Nash's move after Paris in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What led to Nash's investigation?

7. What led to John Forbes Nash, Jr. asking Alicia Larde out in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

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

9. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. working in Chapter Thirty? What interested him about the work?

10. Why did Nash decline an offer at the University of Chicago in Chapter Thirty-Four? How was his behavior described at this time?

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