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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. Nash declined the offer of a chair at the University of Chicago saying that he was becoming the emperor of what, in Chapter Thirty-Four?

2. Studies indicate that people can recover from schizophrenia over a long number of years; Nash described it as emerging from what?

3. 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?

4. What psychiatrist did Nash meet at a private psychiatric hospital near Princeton in Chapter Forty-Two?

5. What institution was interested in Nash in Chapter Thirty-Three, although he applied for grant money for a sabbatical to work on research at Princeton and in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the relationship between Nash and Peter Sarnak described in Chapter Forty-Seven? How did they meet?

5. How is John Forbes Nash, Jr.'s relationship with Alicia described in Chapter Thirty-One? What were peoples' impressions of Alicia?

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

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

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

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

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

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 Princeton University and Solomon Lefshetz in 1948. How does the author describe the transitions within the mathematics department in 1948? Who were the faculty? How did Solomon Lefshetz go about recruiting Nash? Why?

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