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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 obstacle stood in the way of Hardy's plan?
(a) Ramanujan's poverty.
(b) Ramanujan's intractability.
(c) Ramanujan's resistance to sea travel.
(d) Ramanujan's inability to get a passport.

2. Why was Ramanujan late for his wedding?
(a) He ran away and had to be caught.
(b) He became sick.
(c) His parents had to argue him into getting married.
(d) His train was held up.

3. What were Ramanujan and Hardy looking for in their work on partitions?
(a) A point at which partitions broke down for prime numbers.
(b) A way to bridge partitions.
(c) A way to define the number of partitions precisely.
(d) A theorem that demonstrated how partitions operate in series.

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a potential husband?
(a) Appealing.
(b) Undesirable.
(c) Uninteresting.
(d) Frightful.

5. What contributed to Ramanujan's status as a potential husband?
(a) He was fat.
(b) He was handsome.
(c) He was monomaniacally interested in math.
(d) He was wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did parents see when they looked at Ramanujan as a prospective husband?

2. What was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?

3. What did Ramanujan say he was willing to do in order to come to England?

4. Who was Neville?

5. What interrupted Ramanujan's wedding?

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