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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was the result of Ramanujan clinging to his cultural practices?
(a) He taught English students how to cook Indian dishes.
(b) He remained an outsider.
(c) He brought Indian culture to English intellectuals.
(d) He generated fear and hostility in those around him.
2. What did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?
(a) A sinecure.
(b) A bureaucratic appointment.
(c) A research position.
(d) A teaching position.
3. What did the divergent series 1+2+3+4+5... add up to in Ramanujan's notebooks?
(a) 39.
(b) Infinity.
(c) 7.
(d) -1/12.
4. Who did Ramanujan stay with in England?
(a) Euler.
(b) Neville.
(c) Hardy.
(d) John Littlewood.
5. How was Ramanujan treated on his return?
(a) As an exile.
(b) As an outcast.
(c) As an untouchable.
(d) As a celebrity.
Short Answer Questions
1. What obstacle stood in the way of Hardy's plan?
2. When do mathematicians believe Ramanujan did his best work?
3. What was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?
4. What was Ramanujan interested in in this value?
5. What did Ramanujan and Hardy develop for working with partitions?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Ramanujan treated on his return to India?
2. What was Ramanujan's condition when he returned to India?
3. What problem kept Ramanujan from coming to England, as Hardy hoped he would?
4. Where did Ramanujan go when he reached England?
5. What accolades did Ramanujan receive for his work?
6. What has been the impact of Ramanujan's work?
7. What cultural practices did Ramanujan hold on to from India?
8. Ramanujan kept extensive notes of his thinking. What was in Ramanujan's notebooks, and how much of his work was valuable, according to Kanigel?
9. In what way was Ramanujan's experience of England similar to Ghandi's?
10. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.
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