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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2 Ranging with Delight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language did Ramanujan speak?
(a) Bengali.
(b) English.
(c) Tamil.
(d) Hindi.

2. What was Ramanujan's family's status?
(a) Poor.
(b) Not very rich.
(c) Impoverished.
(d) Wealthy.

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

4. When was Ramanujan born?
(a) 1892.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1890.
(d) 1887.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was uncommon about Ramanujan's physique?

2. Why was Ramanujan's scholarship changed?

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

4. What did Ramanujan practice as part of his religion?

5. What distinguished Ramanujan's class?

(see the answer key)

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