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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. In Chapter Forty, Virginia and who traveled to Princeton, at Alicia's request?
(a) Anna.
(b) Martha.
(c) Molly.
(d) Wendy.

2. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant invented by whom in 1899?
(a) Henry Michael Temple.
(b) Georg von Rassewitz.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Lloyd Shapley.

3. Paul Cohen was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of what?
(a) Game theory.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Manifolds.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

4. The institution Nash to which was involuntarily admitted in Chapter Thirty-Six was affiliated with what institution of higher education?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) New York University.
(c) Harvard Medical School.
(d) Princeton University.

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(c) Bluefield College.
(d) MIT.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. when he remarried Alicia?

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr. and Alicia remarried how many years after their divorce?

3. In Chapter Fourteen, Nash returned to Princeton to teach what while looking for a full-time position?

4. When did Joseph McCarthy die?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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