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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Ramanujan like in school?
(a) He liked math and science, but not literature.
(b) He was a poor student.
(c) He was good at all his studies.
(d) He excelled only in math.

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

4. What energy does Kanigel say Ramanujan redirected into mathematics?
(a) Sexual desire.
(b) Political restlessness.
(c) Religious devotion.
(d) Troublemaking.

5. Where did graduates from Hardy's secondary school typically go to college?
(a) University College.
(b) Linacre.
(c) Trinity.
(d) New College.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was G. H. Hardy?

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

4. What was uncommon about Ramanujan's physique?

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

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