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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 did Alicia go to visit a cousin of hers in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) New Zealand.
(b) India.
(c) Italy.
(d) Morocco.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Alicia Larde called by her family?

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

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

4. The Nobel Prize was established in what year?

5. On what date did Nash and Alicia arrive in London in Chapter Thirty-Eight?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the work of Nash being used by the U.S. government in Chapter Forty-Nine?

2. What new project did Nash begin working on in Chapter Thirty-Two? Why?

3. How did Alicia Larde meet John Forbes Nash, Jr.? How is she described in Chapter Twenty-Six?

4. Where was Nash institutionalized in Chapter Thirty-Six? Who did he meet at the hospital and befriend?

5. What led John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s colleagues to suspect something was wrong with him in Chapter Thirty-Four? How did Nash describe his feelings during this time?

6. Where did the Nash's spend Christmas in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What led to their return to the U.S.?

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

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

9. What interaction did Alicia have with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Seven? What was Alicia's response?

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

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