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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. Nash and Alicia sailed on what ship in Chapter Thirty-Eight?
(a) The Wooden Fish.
(b) The Queen Mary.
(c) The Water Dog.
(d) The King James.

2. In what year was Nash committed to a private psychiatric hospital near Princeton in Chapter Forty-Two?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1963.

3. Paul Cohen was an American mathematician best known for his proof of the independence of what?
(a) Game theory.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Manifolds.
(d) The Manhattan Project.

4. In Chapter Thirty-Four, Nash's colleagues began to suspect that something was wrong when he talked about aliens from outer space communicating with him through what?
(a) The Bible.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Bars of soap.
(d) Cups of coffee.

5. How old was John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Thirty-One?
(a) 45.
(b) 30.
(c) 37.
(d) 26.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in New York did John Forbes Nash, Jr. rent an apartment in Chapter Twenty-Nine?

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

3. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?

4. The department chairman relieved Nash of his teaching duties for how long in Chapter Thirty-Five?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Where did Nash spend the summer of 1956? What confrontation did he have with his father during this time?

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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