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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. How old was Nash in Chapter Forty-Four?
(a) 43.
(b) 51.
(c) 40.
(d) 36.

2. Who had provided a research position for Nash in Boston in Chapter Forty-Three?
(a) Reinhard Selten.
(b) Oskar Morgenstern.
(c) Georg von Rassewitz.
(d) Norman Levinson.

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

4. In Chapter Thirty-Two, Nash looked for another project in which to become involved and decided to tackle the problem posed by what?
(a) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Game theory.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

5. Who co-authored The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior with John von Neumann?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Solomon Lefschetz.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Oskar Morgenstern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. meet Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

2. In Chapter Thirty-Seven, Alicia and what friend rented a house while Nash was hospitalized?

3. When Nash was released from the institution in Chapter Thirty-Seven, he went to MIT and hosted what?

4. Where did Alicia go to visit a cousin of hers in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

5. Nash and Alicia had their son committed where in Chapter Fifty?

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