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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Thomas Abraham Nash.
(b) John David Stier.
(c) Michael Jacob Nash.
(d) Robert Lewis Stier.

2. According to the Prologue, John Forbes Nash, Jr. became well known as a mathematician in what year?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1948.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1955.

3. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1945.

4. 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?
(a) Australia.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Antarctica.
(d) China.

5. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?
(a) Betsy.
(b) Margaret.
(c) Cynthia.
(d) Rebecca.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?

3. In Chapter Twenty-Eight, Nash spent the summer of 1956 where?

4. When was Paul Cohen born?

5. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

(see the answer key)

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