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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. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?
(a) 23.
(b) 27.
(c) 19.
(d) 38.

2. John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Eleanor lasted until what year?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1957.
(c) 1954.
(d) 1956.

3. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?
(a) New Mexico.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Louisiana.

4. With whom did Nash work on games during his second summer at RAND in Chapter Eighteen?
(a) Warren Ambrose.
(b) John Milnor.
(c) Robert Lowell.
(d) Albert Tucker.

5. RAND was set up in what year as Project RAND?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. take mathematics classes while in high school?

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

3. Kriegspiel refers to a chess variant based upon the original "Kriegsspiel" developed by whom?

4. Where did Nash, his sister and friend rent a small apartment during Nash's second summer at RAND?

5. Who was the chairman of the mathematics department at Princeton when Nash began attending in Chapter Four?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What became of the meeting between John Forbes Nash, Jr. and John von Neumann in Chapter Ten?

4. How does the author describe John von Neumann in Chapter Seven?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How is Nash's relationship with Jack Bricker described in Chapter Twenty-Four?

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