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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 38 - 41.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty?
(a) The Carrier Clinic.
(b) The Peace Clinic.
(c) Trenton State Hospital.
(d) McLean Hospital.

2. Nash drove across country with his sister Martha and who during his second summer at RAND?
(a) Reinhard Selten.
(b) Ruth Hincks.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) Margaret Virginia Martin.

3. With what was John Forbes Nash, Jr. diagnosed during his first institutionalization in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Epilepsy.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Brain cancer.
(d) Paranoid schizophrenia.

4. What was Alicia Larde called by her family?
(a) Ally.
(b) Turtle.
(c) Lichi.
(d) Tamale.

5. Who did Nash ask to be his thesis advisor in Chapter Ten?
(a) Albert Tucker.
(b) Lloyd Shapley.
(c) Henry Michael Temple.
(d) Norman Steenrod.

Short Answer Questions

1. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?

2. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

3. Where was John von Neumann born?

4. The department chairman relieved Nash of his teaching duties for how long in Chapter Thirty-Five?

5. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded by whom?

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