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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What psychiatrist did Nash meet at a private psychiatric hospital near Princeton in Chapter Forty-Two?
(a) Howard Mele.
(b) Pattison Esmiol.
(c) Reinhard Selten.
(d) John Milnor.

2. The Nobel Prize was established in what year?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1895.
(d) 1842.

3. In what year did Nash win the Leroy P. Steele Prize?
(a) 1989.
(b) 2003.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1999.

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

5. What month was it when Nash traveled to East Germany in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) March.
(b) September.
(c) October.
(d) June.

6. To what private psychiatric hospital near Princeton was Nash committed in Chapter Forty-Two?
(a) The Peace Clinic.
(b) McLean Hospital.
(c) Trenton State Hospital.
(d) The Carrier Clinic.

7. Nash began outpatient treatment with what psychiatrist in Chapter Forty-Three?
(a) Oskar Morgenstern.
(b) David Gale.
(c) Pattison Esmiol.
(d) Abraham Flexner.

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

9. Where did Alicia go upon returning to the United States in Chapter Thirty-Nine?
(a) Boise, Idaho.
(b) San Francisco, California.
(c) Washington, D.C.
(d) Anchorage, Alaska.

10. Where was Peter Sarnak born?
(a) South Africa.
(b) Germany.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) Ecuador.

11. When did Jürgen Moser die?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1959.

12. Where did Alicia go to visit a cousin of hers in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) Italy.
(b) New Zealand.
(c) India.
(d) Morocco.

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

14. Where was Alicia Larde born?
(a) Quito.
(b) San Salvador.
(c) Mexico City.
(d) Rio de Janeiro.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was it in Chapter Thirty-Three?

2. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. marry Alicia Larde?

3. Where did Alicia meet John Forbes Nash, Jr., after she had been a student of his in Chapter Twenty-Six?

4. In what month did Alicia decide to have Nash committed in Chapter Thirty-Five?

5. In Chapter Forty-Nine, Nash was traveling where to accept the Nobel Prize?

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