View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many faculty members from MIT belonged to a Communist Party cell and were called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, as described in Chapter Nineteen?
(a) Seven.
(b) Eleven.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

4. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?
(a) Men of Mathematics.
(b) The Power of Equations.
(c) The Math Wizard.
(d) The Geometry of Humankind.

5. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?
(a) Carnegie Mellon University.
(b) Bluefield College.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Harvard University.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did the Republic of Korea fight in the Korean War?

2. Chapter Eleven describes Nash's friendship with Lloyd Shapley which began in what year?

3. In Chapter Thirty, Nash decided to return to MIT because of what?

4. Where did John Forbes Nash, Sr. work during the Depression?

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 209 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample