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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 did Joseph McCarthy die?

2. Joseph McCarthy served as a Republican U.S. Senator from what state?

3. Where was John Forbes Nash, Jr. born?

4. What was Eleanor's profession when she met John Forbes Nash, Jr. in Chapter Twenty-Three?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What paper does the author describe that Nash wrote in Chapter Nine? What did the paper examine?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Albert Einstein and his position and work at Princeton during the late 1940s. What notoriety had Einstein achieved by this point in history? Also discuss John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s first year at Princeton. How was Nash perceived by the faculty at the university? What was Nash's meeting with Einstein like?

Essay Topic 2

Define and discuss game theory and the game Kriegspiel. When and where was Kriegspiel developed? What was the role of games within the mathematics department at Princeton? What was significant about the game developed by John Forbes Nash, Jr.?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss Alicia Larde and the beginning of her relationship with Nash. How old was Alicia when she began dating Nash? How old was he? What attracted Alicia to Nash? How did he feel about her? What was Alicia's reaction to meeting Eleanor?

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