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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Alicia's family had been prominent and wealthy where, as described in Chapter Twenty-Six?
(a) Central America.
(b) Africa.
(c) Southeastern Asia.
(d) Central Asia.

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

4. What was Alicia Larde called by her family?
(a) Lichi.
(b) Tamale.
(c) Turtle.
(d) Ally.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Forty-Eight, the announcement of Nash winning the Nobel Prize was made on what date?

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

3. Nash won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in what area?

4. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?

5. Nash received an honorary degree, Doctor of Science and Technology from what institution in 1999?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Nash's journey to Europe described in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What did they do upon arrival?

2. Where did the Nash's move after Paris in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What led to Nash's investigation?

3. Where did Nash go when he was released from the hospital in Chapter Thirty-Seven? What did Alicia do?

4. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. working in Chapter Thirty? What interested him about the work?

5. How is John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Alicia described in Chapter Thirty-One? What were peoples' impressions of Alicia?

6. Where was Nash working in Chapter Forty-Three? How was his emotional state at this time?

7. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty-Two? Where did he go upon release?

8. How is the relationship between Nash and Peter Sarnak described in Chapter Forty-Seven? How did they meet?

9. When had Nash previously been considered for the Nobel Prize, as described in Chapter Forty-Eight? Why had he not been nominated?

10. How is Alicia's life described during Nash's hospitalization in Chapter Thirty-Seven? Where did she live?

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