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

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

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

4. On what date did the Korean War begin?

5. How old was Nash when he began teaching at MIT?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What was John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s reputation in his second year of college, as described in Chapter Two? Where did he decide to go to graduate school?

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

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

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

7. What is related regarding game theory in Chapter Eight? What important book changed the way that game theory was perceived?

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

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

10. Where did John Forbes Nash, Jr. grow up? How were Nash's parents described in Chapter One?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Eleanor Stier and her relationship with John Forbes Nash, Jr. When and where did Nash meet Eleanor? What was Nash's reaction when Eleanor became pregnant? What relationship did he have with his first son?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the childhood of John Forbes Nash, Jr. from 1928-1948. How was Nash perceived by his teachers and peers? When did he develop an interest in mathematics? What classes did Nash take at Bluefield College and how did they prepare him for enrollment at the Carnegie Institute?

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