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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 42-46.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what year, in Chapter Three?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1948.

2. When was Joseph McCarthy born?
(a) 1875.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1916.
(d) 1892.

3. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?
(a) The end object.
(b) The original object.
(c) A basic equation.
(d) The Intermediate object.

4. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he arrived at Princeton in Chapter Three?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Nineteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Thirty.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date did the Korean War begin?

2. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?

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

4. Who gave Nash a one year research appointment in Chapter Forty-Two?

5. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?

(see the answer key)

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