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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 was the Rockefeller Foundation established?

2. What religion did John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s parents adopt?

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

4. The one requirement at Princeton in the mathematics department when Nash attended in Chapter Four was that the students attend what daily?

5. Where is MIT located?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe Nash's relationship with Paul Cohen in 1958. What was Nash's career like during this year? What relationships did he form with the University of Chicago and Harvard University? Where was Nash working in 1958? Where did he want to work?

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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