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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 50 and epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Studies indicate that people can recover from schizophrenia over a long number of years; Nash described it as emerging from what?
(a) A mental war.
(b) Blinding rage.
(c) Overwhelming confusion.
(d) Irrational thinking.

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

3. What profession did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother hold before she married?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Teacher.
(c) Secretary.
(d) Bus driver.

4. Alicia found employment as what in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) A physics researcher.
(b) An aerospace engineer.
(c) A psychologist.
(d) A calculus professor.

5. Where was Nash involuntarily committed in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Trenton State Hospital.
(b) The Carrier Clinic.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) McLean Hospital.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Europe did John Forbes Nash, Jr. decide to go at the end of Chapter Thirty-Seven?

2. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?

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?

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?

5. In Chapter Twenty-Seven, Nash realized that he needed to marry after the disastrous summer where?

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