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

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

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

4. When was Paul Cohen born?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1938.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Nash in Chapter Forty-Four?

2. What year was it in Chapter Forty-Four?

3. Nash and Alicia sailed on what ship in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what ways did Alicia attempt to help John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Thirty-Five? What were her thoughts about her husband at this time?

3. What were the doctors' impressions of Nash in Chapter Thirty-Six? With what was he diagnosed?

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

5. What led to Nash's winning the Nobel Prize in Chapter Forty-Eight? What issues did the Royal Swedish Academy have with Nash?

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

7. Why did Nash decline an offer at the University of Chicago in Chapter Thirty-Four? How was his behavior described at this time?

8. How old was Nash in Chapter Thirty-One? How did he feel about his career at this point?

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

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

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