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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. In what year was Nash committed to a private psychiatric hospital near Princeton in Chapter Forty-Two?

2. When was Peter Sarnak born?

3. Where did Nash want to teach the most in Chapter Thirty-Three?

4. Alicia found employment as what in Chapter Thirty-One?

5. Where in Europe did John Forbes Nash, Jr. decide to go at the end of Chapter Thirty-Seven?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Alicia Larde meet John Forbes Nash, Jr.? How is she described in Chapter Twenty-Six?

2. Where did the Nash's spend Christmas in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What led to their return to the U.S.?

3. What led to Nash's winning the Nobel Prize in Chapter Forty-Eight? What issues did the Royal Swedish Academy have with Nash?

4. Where did the Nash's move after Paris in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What led to Nash's investigation?

5. Where was Nash working in Chapter Forty-Three? How was his emotional state at this time?

6. What led John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s colleagues to suspect something was wrong with him in Chapter Thirty-Four? How did Nash describe his feelings during this time?

7. Where was Nash hospitalized in Chapter Forty? What did he think of his treatment?

8. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty-Two? Where did he go upon release?

9. How is the Nash's journey to Europe described in Chapter Thirty-Eight? What did they do upon arrival?

10. How is Nash's mental state described in Chapter Forty-Two after his release from the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, and the Nash-Moser Theorem. How did McCarthyism affect the faculty at MIT? What were Nash's impressions of McCarthyism? How is the Nash-Moser Theorem defined?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Describe and discuss Albert Tucker, Lloyd Shapley and Nash equilibrium. What is the basic premise of Nash equilibrium? What influences did Nash have from his relationships with Albert Tucker and Lloyd Shapley. What was the basis of Nash's rivalry with Shapley?

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