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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. Where did Ramanujan eventually find work?
(a) The British Indian Civil Service.
(b) He worked for his patron.
(c) A high school.
(d) His college.

2. When did the Tripos take place?
(a) After a student's first year.
(b) After a student's second year.
(c) After a student's last year.
(d) After a student's third year.

3. Who are the Apostles?
(a) Religious figures in Rome.
(b) A secret society at Cambridge.
(c) Artists.
(d) Disciples of Hardy's.

4. What was it that offended Ramanujan when he invited some friends to dinner?
(a) The friends criticized his cooking.
(b) The men used salt.
(c) The friends wanted to use silverware.
(d) The women declined a third helping.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What other Indian thinker does Kanigel compare Ramanujan's experience with?

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

3. With whom did Ramanujan eventually begin to develop a real relationship, according to Kanigel?

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's dress?

5. Who developed an exact solution to the question of partitions?

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