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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. When was the first Fields Medal awarded?
(a) 1909.
(b) 1922.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1876.

2. What was the name of John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s mother?
(a) Margaret.
(b) Rebecca.
(c) Betsy.
(d) Cynthia.

3. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?
(a) Five years.
(b) Twenty-four years.
(c) Two years.
(d) Twelve years.

4. What is the name of the son John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Alicia Nash?
(a) John Charles Martin Nash .
(b) Henry Nicolaus Nash.
(c) Elliot Daniel Nash.
(d) Robert Theodore Nash.

5. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash returned to Princeton to teach what while looking for a full-time position?
(a) Physics.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Geometry.
(d) Algebra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Albert Tucker when Nash mailed the first draft of his thesis to him in Chapter Ten?

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived at Princeton in what month?

3. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

4. 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?

5. Nash's first infatuation with a man was in summer of what year?

(see the answer key)

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