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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. The hospital where Nash was institutionalized in Chapter Thirty-Six received permission for a court to extend Nash's stay for an additional how many days?

2. What year was it in Chapter Forty-Four?

3. In Chapter Forty-Nine, the United States government was holding an auction of what?

4. Where was Nash committed in Chapter Forty?

5. The Nobel Prize was established in what year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When had Nash previously been considered for the Nobel Prize, as described in Chapter Forty-Eight? Why had he not been nominated?

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

5. Where did Nash go when he was released from the hospital in Chapter Thirty-Seven? What did Alicia do?

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

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

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

9. What new project did Nash begin working on in Chapter Thirty-Two? Why?

10. How are Nash's career and personal life described in Chapter Thirty-Three?

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 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 3

Describe McLean Hospital and Robert Lowell. For how long did Nash stay as an involuntary patient at McLean? What were the thoughts of his doctors? For what reasons was poet Robert Lowell committed at the institution? How is his friendship with Nash described?

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