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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 met with von Neumann to discuss his ideas regarding what in Chapter Ten?
(a) Manifolds.
(b) Game theory.
(c) The continuum hypothesis.
(d) Riemann's Hypothesis.

2. Where was John von Neumann born?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Budapest.
(c) London.
(d) Cairo.

3. In Chapter Fifteen, Nash began to study the area of what?
(a) Manifolds.
(b) The continuum hypothesis.
(c) Riemann's Hypothesis.
(d) Game theory.

4. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?
(a) McAnderson's lecture.
(b) Student meetings.
(c) Church services.
(d) A faculty tea.

5. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Actress.
(d) Waitress.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much younger was John Forbes Nash, Jr. than his mistress Eleanor?

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

3. When did Joseph McCarthy die?

4. Nash's first infatuation with a man was with whom, as described in Chapter Twenty-Two?

5. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author describe the mathematics department at Princeton in Chapter Four? How was grading determined?

3. When did Nash begin working for RAND? How did his work there influence his thinking?

4. What led to Nash's work with manifolds in Chapter Fifteen? What did his theorem state?

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

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

7. How is Nash's thesis for Princeton described in Chapter Ten? What significance did it have?

8. Why did Nash refuse a permanent position at RAND in Chapter Fourteen? Where did he go instead?

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

10. How is the political atmosphere described in Chapter Nineteen? How did it affect the faculty at MIT?

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