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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Paul Cohen die?
(a) 1993.
(b) 2004.
(c) 1985.
(d) 1988.

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

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

4. Alicia found employment as what in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) A psychologist.
(b) A physics researcher.
(c) A calculus professor.
(d) An aerospace engineer.

5. What poet was also a patient at the institution where Nash was held in Chapter Thirty-Six?
(a) Harlow Shapley.
(b) Albert Tucker.
(c) Norman Steenrod.
(d) Robert Lowell.

6. Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in what area?
(a) Manifolds.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Riemann's Hypothesis.

7. Where was Jürgen Moser born?
(a) Italy.
(b) Brazil.
(c) South Africa.
(d) East Prussia.

8. In what year was Nash awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize for his discovery of non-cooperative equilibria?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1987.

9. Nash and Alicia sailed on what ship in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) The Wooden Fish.
(b) The King James.
(c) The Water Dog.
(d) The Queen Mary.

10. By what month did Nash begin having problems again and try to secure a position in France in Chapter Forty-Two?
(a) September.
(b) February.
(c) July.
(d) May.

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

12. When was Alicia Larde born?
(a) September 28, 1926.
(b) January 1, 1933.
(c) June 9, 1930.
(d) May 17, 1931.

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

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

15. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded by whom?
(a) Harlow Shapley.
(b) Reinhard Selten.
(c) Abraham Flexner.
(d) Ervin Thorson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Thirty-Two, Nash looked for another project in which to become involved and decided to tackle the problem posed by what?

2. Where did Alicia go upon returning to the United States in Chapter Thirty-Nine?

3. What was Alicia Larde called by her family?

4. In what year did John Forbes Nash, Jr. first ask out Alicia Larde?

5. On what date was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s second son born?

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