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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ramanujan's parents do in response to their impatience?
(a) Marry him off.
(b) Buy him a bureaucratic appointment.
(c) Send him to school.
(d) Apprentice him to a designer.

2. Why did Ramanujan leave school?
(a) He was expelled.
(b) He got sick.
(c) His family could not afford it without the scholarship.
(d) He completed the coursework.

3. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's solutions to the math problems in 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?
(a) As inconsistent.
(b) As frequently wrong.
(c) As flawless.
(d) As odd.

4. How old was the wife Ramanujan's parents found?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

5. Where had the author of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' taught?
(a) London.
(b) Bern.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a nested square root?

3. How does Kanigel describe the skills Ramanujan got from 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

4. What class was Ramanujan raised in?

5. What makes 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' notable, according to Kanigel?

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