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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a nested square root?

2. Where had the author of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' taught?

3. Where did Ramanujan go when he was 17?

4. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?

5. What does Kanigel say people appreciated about Hardy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ramanujan's experience at Kumbakonam's Government College.

2. What was Hardy's experience at Winchester?

3. How was Ramanujan's health as a child?

4. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

5. What was the subject of the challenge Ramanujan set and then resolved in his first paper?

6. What problems in Ramanujan's thinking came from his use of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

7. How did Ramanujan's temperament reveal itself when he was a child?

8. What happened after Ramanujan left Kumbakonam's Government College?

9. What practices did Ramanujan follow as a result of his religion?

10. Describe Ramanujan's place of birth.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the role of Ramanujan's wife in his life and career. How important was it for him to be married? Was he married to someone or something else besides his wife?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on his handling of the material in Ramanujan's life. What are the author's values like? What evidence do you have for them?

Essay Topic 3

What do you think is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence?

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