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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 33 - 35.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was the first Fields Medal awarded?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1936.
(c) 1909.
(d) 1922.

2. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1948.

3. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?
(a) Georg von Rassewitz.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

4. The department chairman relieved Nash of his teaching duties for how long in Chapter Thirty-Five?
(a) One year.
(b) Nine months.
(c) A semester.
(d) Two weeks.

5. When was Jürgen Moser born?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1899.
(d) 1904.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

2. On what date did the Korean War begin?

3. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?

4. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s thesis for Princeton became known as what, as described in Chapter Ten?

(see the answer key)

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