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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. When was Joseph McCarthy born?

2. When was John von Neumann born?

3. When was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

4. What is the name of the child John Forbes Nash, Jr. had with Eleanor in Chapter Twenty-Three?

5. Nash's theorem in Chapter Fifteen basically said that it is possible for every manifold to find a part that corresponds to what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. How are John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s experiences in college described in Chapter Two?

7. Where did Nash move in Chapter Sixteen? What job did he take and with whom did he work?

8. How is Nash's relationship to Lloyd Shapley described in Chapter Eleven?

9. How old was Nash when he arrived at Princeton? What year was it? In what areas was Princeton building its faculty at this time?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Jürgen Moser. When was the Courant Institute established? What was the basis of Nash's work there? How did Nash feel about his career in Chapters Thirty and Thirty-One? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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.?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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