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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Somewhat Indifferent Health.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What value did Ramanujan work with at Cambridge?
(a) Avogadro's number.
(b) Real numbers.
(c) Chaitin's constant.
(d) Pi.

3. In his letter to Hardy, what did Ramanujan say he had discovered?
(a) A solution to a problem Hardy proposed.
(b) A function for using irrational numbers in multi-variable calculus.
(c) A mistake in Hardy's theorems.
(d) A theory of relativity.

4. When would Ramanujan and his wife consummate their marriage?
(a) When she was older.
(b) Never--they were pledged to be chaste.
(c) It would depend on Ramanujan's career.
(d) As soon as she was chosen.

5. For how long would Ramanujan's condition persist?
(a) A few months.
(b) A few years.
(c) The rest of his life.
(d) A few weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?

2. When do mathematicians believe Ramanujan did his best work?

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

4. Why did Hardy need to excel on the entrance exams for secondary education?

5. With whom did Ramanujan eventually begin to develop a real relationship, according to Kanigel?

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