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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hardy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's first paper?
(a) Exciting but incomplete.
(b) Exquisite.
(c) Immaculate.
(d) Detailed.

2. Where did Ramanujan go when he was 17?
(a) Delhi.
(b) Madras.
(c) Bengal.
(d) Uttar Pradesh.

3. Which person was NOT in the Bloomsbury Group?
(a) John Maynard Keynes.
(b) Virginia Woolf.
(c) G.E. Moore.
(d) James Joyce.

4. What class was Ramanujan raised in?
(a) Pancha-Gauda Brahmin.
(b) Shaivite Brahmin.
(c) Maharashtra Brahmin.
(d) Pancha-Dravida Brahmin.

5. What was Ramanujan's college's nickname?
(a) Oxford of South India.
(b) Harvard of South India.
(c) The Bollytechnicum.
(d) Cambridge of South India.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how long would Ramanujan's condition persist?

2. What is the British term for what Americans call private high schools?

3. Who was G. H. Hardy?

4. How does Kanigel describe Hardy?

5. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?

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