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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The hospital where Nash was institutionalized in Chapter Thirty-Six received permission for a court to extend Nash's stay for an additional how many days?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Forty.
(d) Seventy-seven.

3. What poet was also a patient at the institution where Nash was held in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Robert Lowell.
(b) Norman Steenrod.
(c) Albert Tucker.
(d) Harlow Shapley.

4. RAND conducted experiments in games to see if the players did what, in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Acted as they predicted.
(b) Acted unpredictably.
(c) Would lose the game.
(d) Could win the game.

5. In Chapter Twenty-Seven, Nash realized that he needed to marry after the disastrous summer where?
(a) New York.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Santa Monica.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

2. Chapter Twenty-Four discusses Nash's friendship with what MIT graduate student?

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

4. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?

(see the answer key)

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