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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 are partitions in math?
(a) The divisions between theorems and proofs.
(b) The separation between rational and irrational numbers.
(c) The number of ways to arrive at a number.
(d) The distinctions between prime numbers and other numbers.

2. Where was Ramanujan's college located?
(a) Madras.
(b) Delhi.
(c) Cambridge.
(d) A small town.

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

4. Why did Hardy need to excel on the entrance exams for secondary education?
(a) Admissions were extremely competitive.
(b) Testing was the sole criterion for admission.
(c) His family could not afford the best schools.
(d) He would have low status at school if his test scores were low.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's solutions to the math problems in 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

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

3. How do people account for Ramanujan's self-assessment?

4. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?

5. Where had the author of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' taught?

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