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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what division did Nash work at New York University in Chapter Thirty?
(a) The Antioch Institute of Technology.
(b) The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
(c) The Carnegie Institute of Technology.
(d) The Harvard Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

2. Where did Alicia's family first settle after coming to America?
(a) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(b) Charleston, South Carolina.
(c) Seattle, Washington.
(d) Boston, Massachusetts.

3. Where did Nash travel to visit a cousin in Chapter Forty-Three?
(a) Arkansas.
(b) South Dakota.
(c) California.
(d) Kentucky.

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

5. What year was it in Chapter Forty-Four?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1965.

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

7. What year was it in Chapter Thirty-Three?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1956.

8. 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?
(a) Twenty-one.
(b) Forty.
(c) Seven.
(d) Seventy-seven.

9. Alicia took a job where in Chapter Thirty-Five?
(a) Carnegie Mellon University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) MIT.
(d) Brandeis University.

10. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?
(a) 1930.
(b) 1863.
(c) 1885.
(d) 1907.

11. What was the month and year that Nash and Alicia sailed to Europe in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) July, 1959.
(b) September, 1960.
(c) April, 1958.
(d) August, 1961.

12. With whom did Nash share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?
(a) Reinhard Selten and John Milnor.
(b) David Gale and Norman Steenrod.
(c) Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
(d) Norman Steenrod and John Harsanyi.

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

14. In Chapter Forty-Three, Nash was back in Boston working where?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Brandeis University.
(d) Harvard University.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?

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

3. What was Alicia Larde called by her family?

4. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded by whom?

5. What is the name of the locked facility for men where Nash was contained in Chapter Thirty-Six?

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