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

2. What year was it in Chapter Forty-Four?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1965.

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

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

5. Nash received an honorary degree, Doctor of Science and Technology from what institution in 1999?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Chicago.
(c) Princeton University.
(d) Carnegie Mellon University.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Luxembourg is bordered by Belgium, France, and what country?

3. In what month did Alicia decide to have Nash committed in Chapter Thirty-Five?

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

5. Where did Alicia meet John Forbes Nash, Jr., after she had been a student of his in Chapter Twenty-Six?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How are Nash's career and personal life described in Chapter Thirty-Three?

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

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

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

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

10. What led to John Forbes Nash, Jr. asking Alicia Larde out in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

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