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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The English Chill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What interrupted Ramanujan's wedding?
(a) A fight.
(b) Objections from the girl's family.
(c) A deranged woman.
(d) Drunken relatives.

2. What did Ramanujan's Master Theorem attempt to do?
(a) Reduce infinite series to prime numbers.
(b) Solve Fermat's Last Theorem.
(c) Formulate number theory.
(d) Integrate finite integrals.

3. What did Hardy try to arrange after receiving Ramanujan's letter?
(a) A teaching position for Ramanujan.
(b) A meeting with Ramanujan.
(c) A scholarship for Ramanujan in India.
(d) Ramanujan's passage to England.

4. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Fevers.
(b) A limp.
(c) Partial deafness.
(d) Swelling in his scrotum.

5. What did Hardy and Neville nominate Ramanujan to become?
(a) A dean at Oriel College.
(b) A teacher at King's College.
(c) A graduate student at Trinity.
(d) A fellow at Trinity College.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ramanujan do while he waited for his wife?

2. When did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

3. Where did families NOT look for wives for their sons in India in Ramanujan's time?

4. Where did Ramanujan's parents find a wife for him?

5. What is a nested square root?

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