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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Alicia Larde born?
(a) January 1, 1933.
(b) September 28, 1926.
(c) June 9, 1930.
(d) May 17, 1931.

2. Where did Alicia take a job in New York after returning to the U.S. in Chapter Thirty-Nine?
(a) RCA.
(b) MIA.
(c) JVC.
(d) FBI.

3. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?
(a) Antioch College.
(b) Harvard University.
(c) The University of Chicago.
(d) Bluefield College.

4. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) London.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Cairo.

5. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) John Milnor.
(b) Robert Lowell.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) Warren Ambrose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the professor to whom Nash was closest at Princeton?

2. When did John von Neumann die?

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

4. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?

5. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?

(see the answer key)

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