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

2. How long after the wedding would it take before Janaki joined Ramanujan?
(a) Three years.
(b) Seven years.
(c) Nine years.
(d) Five years.

3. What did Hardy try to arrange after receiving Ramanujan's letter?
(a) A scholarship for Ramanujan in India.
(b) A teaching position for Ramanujan.
(c) A meeting with Ramanujan.
(d) Ramanujan's passage to England.

4. What did Littlewood and Hardy see as mathematically important?
(a) Ramanujan's nested square roots.
(b) Ramanujan's detailed proofs.
(c) Ramanujan's use of irrational numbers.
(d) Ramanujan's infinite series.

5. How did Ramanujan respond to Hardy's request for proofs?
(a) He dragged his feet about sending them.
(b) He sent them immediately.
(c) He would send them if Hardy would help him financially.
(d) He said he could not produce them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was G. H. Hardy?

2. How does Kanigel describe the skills Ramanujan got from 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

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

4. When did Ramanujan write to Hardy?

5. What were Ramanujan's parents getting impatient with?

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