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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. Who was absent from the dock when Ramanujan's ship came in?
(a) His wife.
(b) His friends.
(c) His mother.
(d) His father.

2. What does Kanigel say prevented Ramanujan from getting the care he needed?
(a) The fight between his wife and mother.
(b) The Great War.
(c) His family's poverty.
(d) His distance from the cultural centers.

3. How does Kanigel describe the value of Ramanujan's discovery?
(a) It predicts the behavior of certain celestial bodies.
(b) It is still used today.
(c) It revised several major mathematic theorems.
(d) It has yet to be disproved.

4. What did Hardy decide after conferring with John Littlewood?
(a) That Ramanujan was dangerous.
(b) That Ramanujan was a genius.
(c) That Ramanujan was unstable.
(d) That Ramanujan was a small thinker.

5. Who did Ramanujan stay with in England?
(a) Neville.
(b) Euler.
(c) John Littlewood.
(d) Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In his letter to Hardy, what was the importance of the thing Ramanujan claimed to have discovered?

2. What was the result of Ramanujan clinging to his cultural practices?

3. Who is NOT included in the list of people who have benefited from Ramanujan's work, in Kanigel's account?

4. What did Hardy and Neville nominate Ramanujan to become?

5. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan passed his time on the ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.

2. How much did Ramanujan's bride share in his mathematical life?

3. What was Ramanujan's relationship with Cambridge after he left for India?

4. What was Ramanujan's interest in pi?

5. What did Ramanujan write to Hardy?

6. What has been the impact of Ramanujan's work?

7. What did Hardy do with Ramanujan's letter?

8. How was Ramanujan treated on his return to India?

9. What did Ramanujan discover when P. C. Mahalanobis read him a puzzle one evening?

10. Describe Ramanujan and Hardy's work on partitions.

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