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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through I Beg to Introduce Myself.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kanigel say about Ramanujan's marriage?
(a) It was seen as fortuitous.
(b) It had all the ingredients for a lovely match.
(c) There were omens of disaster.
(d) Both parties resisted it.

2. What did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?
(a) A research position.
(b) A sinecure.
(c) A teaching position.
(d) A bureaucratic appointment.

3. Where would Ramanujan's technique of solving math problems run into difficulty?
(a) With multi-variable formulas.
(b) With Pi.
(c) With very large or very small numbers.
(d) With irrational numbers.

4. What was Hardy's experience of secondary education like, according to Kanigel?
(a) He hated it.
(b) He loved it.
(c) It transformed him into an upstanding citizen.
(d) He passed through without distinction.

5. Which person was NOT in the Bloomsbury Group?
(a) G.E. Moore.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) Virginia Woolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Ramanujan's scholarship?

2. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's relationship with his wife?

3. What did parents see when they looked at Ramanujan as a prospective husband?

4. What class was Ramanujan raised in?

5. Who was G. H. Hardy?

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