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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Somewhat Indifferent Health.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Namagiri?
(a) Shiva's consort.
(b) Ramanujan's family's traditional deity.
(c) Ramanujan's religious teacher.
(d) Ramanujan's chess teacher.

2. Who were the Senior Wranglers?
(a) Students whose parents could not afford school on their own.
(b) Students who played rugby or soccer/football.
(c) Academic celebrities.
(d) Students who struggled.

3. Who gave Ramanujan money to study in Madras?
(a) His in-laws.
(b) A patron.
(c) A relative.
(d) His parents.

4. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's theorems and formulas?
(a) Almost incomprehensible.
(b) Odd by English standards.
(c) Immaculate.
(d) Universally recognizable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was G. H. Hardy's status in Britain?

2. What were Ramanujan and Hardy looking for in their work on partitions?

3. What does Kanigel say about Ramanujan's marriage?

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

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

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