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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) Morocco.
(c) Italy.
(d) India.

2. In Chapter Forty-Nine, the United States government was holding an auction of what?
(a) Gold mines.
(b) Used vehicles.
(c) Air waves.
(d) National parks.

3. When did Jürgen Moser die?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1983.
(d) 1999.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nobel Prize was established in what year?

2. What is the name of the son John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Alicia Nash?

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

4. Alicia took a job where in Chapter Thirty-Five?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How is Nash's mental state described in Chapter Forty-Two after his release from the hospital?

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

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