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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. John Forbes Nash, Jr. was born on what date?

2. In May 1948, Project RAND became an independent non-profit organization with initial capital from where?

3. In Chapter Twenty, Nash antagonized a colleague named what?

4. Where was John von Neumann born?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr. won a Westinghouse Scholarship to study where in Chapter One?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the romantic life of John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-One?

2. When was Nash's first son born? How did Nash respond to his son's birth in Chapter Twenty-Three?

3. What led to Nash's theorem on manifolds in Chapter Twenty? What was the theory known as?

4. How was John Forbes Nash, Jr. described as a child in Chapter One? When did he develop an interest in mathematics?

5. How was Nash perceived by faculty and his peers at Princeton in Chapter Five?

6. Where did Nash meet Eleanor? How is their relationship described in Chapter Twenty-Three?

7. To what faculty members was Nash most closely associated at Princeton, as described by the author in Chapter Five?

8. What work did Nash do during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? With whom did he work?

9. Who accompanied Nash in his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen? Where did he live?

10. What does the author write about Nash's involvement with games in Chapter Six?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe McLean Hospital and Robert Lowell. For how long did Nash stay as an involuntary patient at McLean? What were the thoughts of his doctors? For what reasons was poet Robert Lowell committed at the institution? How is his friendship with Nash described?

Essay Topic 2

Describe and discuss the RAND Corporation and the Cold War. Who was America's rival in the Cold War? What defense measures were taken at this time? What military work was done by the RAND Corporation? What work does RAND do today? How has the company evolved?

Essay Topic 3

Describe John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, and "The Bargaining Problem." What was significant about the work of Morgenstern and von Neumann? How did it influence the work of John Forbes Nash, Jr.?

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