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Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Ramanujan's parents do in response to their impatience?
(a) Marry him off.
(b) Send him to school.
(c) Apprentice him to a designer.
(d) Buy him a bureaucratic appointment.

2. What was the effect of Ramanujan's childhood smallpox?
(a) Partial deafness.
(b) Spinal deformity.
(c) A limp.
(d) Pockmarks.

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

4. Where did Ramanujan's parents find a wife for him?
(a) Madras.
(b) Uttar Pradesh.
(c) An orphanage.
(d) A nearby village.

5. Who wrote 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?
(a) William George Horner.
(b) Enrico Betti.
(c) George Carr.
(d) Frank Nelson Cole.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

2. Which god was Ramanujan's family devoted to?

3. Who gave Ramanujan money to study in Madras?

4. What energy does Kanigel say Ramanujan redirected into mathematics?

5. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a potential husband?

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