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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?
(a) China.
(b) Cambodia.
(c) The Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
(d) Vietnam.

2. Where did Nash's sister find a job during Nash's second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) A movie theatre.
(b) A dentist's office.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A library.

3. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?
(a) Episcopalian.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Scientology.
(d) Mormonism.

4. What is the last name of Eleanor, the woman with whom Nash had an affair in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Stier.
(b) Morgenstern.
(c) Flexner.
(d) Harsanyi.

5. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?
(a) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) MIT.
(d) Bluefield College.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Twenty-Seven, Nash realized that he needed to marry after the disastrous summer where?

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

4. With what was John Forbes Nash, Jr. diagnosed during his first institutionalization in Chapter Thirty-Six?

5. Nash declined the offer of a chair at the University of Chicago saying that he was becoming the emperor of what, in Chapter Thirty-Four?

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