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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Seven.
(b) Seventy-seven.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Forty.

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

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

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

5. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?
(a) The University of Chicago.
(b) Antioch College.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Bluefield College.

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

7. When Nash was released from the institution in Chapter Thirty-Seven, he went to MIT and hosted what?
(a) A Loon's Luncheon.
(b) A Batty Brunch.
(c) A Mad Hatter's Tea.
(d) A Crazy Carnival.

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

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

10. When was Peter Sarnak born?
(a) 1953.
(b) 1956.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1947.

11. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Princeton University.
(c) Carnegie Mellon University.
(d) Bluefield College.

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

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

14. In what year did John Forbes Nash, Jr. first ask out Alicia Larde?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1947.

15. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?
(a) West Medford, Massachusetts.
(b) Ashland, Oregon.
(c) Pueblo, Colorado.
(d) Fargo, North Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Alicia Larde called by her family?

2. When was Jürgen Moser born?

3. What poet was also a patient at the institution where Nash was held in Chapter Thirty-Six?

4. With whom did Nash share the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?

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

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