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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Hardy get his secondary education?
(a) King's.
(b) St. Alban's.
(c) Winchester.
(d) Eton.

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

4. Where did families NOT look for wives for their sons in India in Ramanujan's time?
(a) Extended family.
(b) Neighbors.
(c) Friends of the family.
(d) Prominent villagers.

5. How does Kanigel describe education at Hardy's college?
(a) Students worked with tutors instead of taking classes.
(b) Students followed their own inclination in study.
(c) Students took a ferocious load of classes.
(d) Students worked together to make presentations to tutors.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's first paper?

2. Why did Ramanujan leave school?

3. Who wrote 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

4. What class was Ramanujan raised in?

5. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's youth?

(see the answer key)

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