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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel describe John Littlewood?
(a) A bureaucrat.
(b) A therapist.
(c) A math prodigy.
(d) A consultant.

2. What does Kanigel say people appreciated about Hardy?
(a) His irreverent sense of humor.
(b) His youthful beauty.
(c) His wealth and taste.
(d) His long lineage.

3. What was G. H. Hardy's status in Britain?
(a) Dean of Cambridge.
(b) Head of a secret society in London.
(c) Religious leader.
(d) Preeminent mathematician.

4. How did Ramanujan see himself socially, according to Kanigel?
(a) As a mathematician.
(b) As a citizen.
(c) As a Brahmin.
(d) As a celebrity.

5. Where did graduates from Hardy's secondary school typically go to college?
(a) University College.
(b) Trinity.
(c) New College.
(d) Linacre.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan when he returned to India?

2. What is the British term for what Americans call private high schools?

3. What does Kanigel say Hardy's friends began to say about him as he got older?

4. Where was Ramanujan's college located?

5. What was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?

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