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Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Namagiri?
(a) Ramanujan's religious teacher.
(b) Shiva's consort.
(c) Ramanujan's family's traditional deity.
(d) Ramanujan's chess teacher.

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

3. Why did Ramanujan leave school?
(a) He completed the coursework.
(b) His family could not afford it without the scholarship.
(c) He was expelled.
(d) He got sick.

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a potential husband?
(a) Frightful.
(b) Undesirable.
(c) Uninteresting.
(d) Appealing.

5. How does Kanigel describe the skills Ramanujan got from 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?
(a) Impeccable.
(b) Incorrect.
(c) Unorthodox.
(d) Flawed.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Ramanujan born?

2. Where did Ramanujan go when he was 17?

3. What was Ramanujan's college's nickname?

4. Who was N. Ramanujachariar?

5. Who wrote 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

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