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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. Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study was founded in what year?

2. Who met with Alicia and told her about her son and her relationship with Nash in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

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

4. When was Paul Cohen born?

5. In Chapter Thirty-Five, Alicia and Nash moved where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Alicia's life described during Nash's hospitalization in Chapter Thirty-Seven? Where did she live?

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

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

4. 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?

5. How was the work of Nash being used by the U.S. government in Chapter Forty-Nine?

6. How old was Nash in Chapter Thirty-One? How did he feel about his career at this point?

7. Why did Nash decline an offer at the University of Chicago in Chapter Thirty-Four? How was his behavior described at this time?

8. Where was Nash institutionalized in Chapter Thirty-Six? Who did he meet at the hospital and befriend?

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

10. What led to John Forbes Nash, Jr. asking Alicia Larde out in Chapter Twenty-Seven?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, and "The Bargaining Problem." What was significant about the work of Morgenstern and von Neumann? How did it influence the work of John Forbes Nash, Jr.?

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 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?

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