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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the effect of Ramanujan's childhood smallpox?
(a) Spinal deformity.
(b) Partial deafness.
(c) A limp.
(d) Pockmarks.

2. What did Ramanujan's parents do in response to their impatience?
(a) Send him to school.
(b) Buy him a bureaucratic appointment.
(c) Apprentice him to a designer.
(d) Marry him off.

3. What were Ramanujan's parents getting impatient with?
(a) Ramanujan's sloth.
(b) Ramanujan's scribbling in notebooks.
(c) Ramanujan's insubordination.
(d) Ramanujan's failure to win prizes.

4. Who was N. Ramanujachariar?
(a) Ramanujan's roommate.
(b) Ramanujan's math teacher.
(c) Ramanujan's trainer.
(d) Ramanujan's rival.

5. What distinguished Ramanujan's class?
(a) Mercantilism.
(b) The trades.
(c) Learning and religion.
(d) Hand work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan learned from an old book?

2. Where did Ramanujan eventually find work?

3. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan disliked as a child?

4. What language did Ramanujan speak?

5. Where did families NOT look for wives for their sons in India in Ramanujan's time?

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