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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The English Chill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ramanujan use as evidence of his credentials in interviews?
(a) Falsified diplomas.
(b) His math notebooks.
(c) His letters of reference.
(d) His resume.

2. When did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?
(a) 1913.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1920.

3. What does Kanigel say characterized Indian intellectuals' experience at Cambridge?
(a) Depression.
(b) Frustration.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Disorientation.

4. What did Ramanujan's Master Theorem attempt to do?
(a) Solve Fermat's Last Theorem.
(b) Integrate finite integrals.
(c) Reduce infinite series to prime numbers.
(d) Formulate number theory.

5. In his letter to Hardy, what was the importance of the thing Ramanujan claimed to have discovered?
(a) It was already common knowledge.
(b) No one under thirty had even tried it.
(c) It was just being discovered simultaneously at other math departments.
(d) It had been a mystery for years.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ramanujan need to do now that he was married?

2. What contributed to Ramanujan's status as a potential husband?

3. To what extent does Kanigel say Ramanujan blended in with Cambridge society?

4. When did Ramanujan write to Hardy?

5. How did Ramanujan see himself socially, according to Kanigel?

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