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Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan would solve math problems?
(a) He would intuit the solution.
(b) By adding numbers to formulas.
(c) By solving one part at a time.
(d) By turning values into variables.

2. What contributed to Ramanujan's status as a potential husband?
(a) He was fat.
(b) He was handsome.
(c) He was wealthy.
(d) He was monomaniacally interested in math.

3. Why was Ramanujan's scholarship changed?
(a) Because of his rowdy behavior.
(b) Because of his progress in all his fields.
(c) Because of his womanizing.
(d) Because he neglected his studies aside from math.

4. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Partial deafness.
(b) Swelling in his scrotum.
(c) A limp.
(d) Fevers.

5. What was Ramanujan's caste?
(a) Brahmin.
(b) Shudras.
(c) Kshatriyas.
(d) Vaishyas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kanigel say about Ramanujan's marriage?

2. Where was Ramanujan's college located?

3. What did Ramanujan do while he waited for his wife?

4. How does Kanigel describe the seriousness of Ramanujan's condition?

5. Who was G. H. Hardy?

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