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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ramanujan's Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Ramanujan's scholarship?
(a) It was withdrawn.
(b) It was renewed for four years.
(c) It was expanded to his graduate study.
(d) It was jeopardized by Ramanujan's poor grades.

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

3. How does Kanigel describe life in Ramanujan's hometown?
(a) A middle class was just emerging.
(b) Childhood illness and death were common.
(c) Crushing poverty was the norm.
(d) People had every luxury.

4. What makes 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' notable, according to Kanigel?
(a) There is no explanation to the problems.
(b) The problems do not have solutions.
(c) The dissertation does not have a conclusion.
(d) The theorems do not have examples.

5. What was Hardy's experience of secondary education like, according to Kanigel?
(a) He loved it.
(b) He passed through without distinction.
(c) It transformed him into an upstanding citizen.
(d) He hated it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kanigel say people appreciated about Hardy?

2. When did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

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

4. What does Kanigel say 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' is lacking?

5. What was Ramanujan's college's nickname?

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