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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. John Forbes Nash, Jr. became interested in mathematics in his youth while reading what book?

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

3. Princeton was building its faculty in what areas when John Forbes Nash, Jr. arrived in Chapter Three?

4. Chapter Nineteen focuses on the McCarthy era in the spring of what year?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. Why did Nash worry about the onset of the Korean War in Chapter Fourteen? What actions did he take?

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

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

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

Describe and discuss Nash's first institutionalization and his diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. How did Nash's behavior change during this time? What were his colleagues' concerns? How old was Nash when symptoms of mental illness began to surface?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the RAND Corporation and the Cold War. Who was America's rival in the Cold War? What defense measures were taken at this time? What military work was done by the RAND Corporation? What work does RAND do today? How has the company evolved?

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