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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ramanujan's Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Tripos?
(a) Written exams.
(b) Oral exams.
(c) A secret society.
(d) Physical evaluations.

2. What obstacle stood in the way of Hardy's plan?
(a) Ramanujan's inability to get a passport.
(b) Ramanujan's intractability.
(c) Ramanujan's poverty.
(d) Ramanujan's resistance to sea travel.

3. Why was Ramanujan's scholarship changed?
(a) Because of his rowdy behavior.
(b) Because he neglected his studies aside from math.
(c) Because of his progress in all his fields.
(d) Because of his womanizing.

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

5. When would Ramanujan and his wife consummate their marriage?
(a) It would depend on Ramanujan's career.
(b) As soon as she was chosen.
(c) Never--they were pledged to be chaste.
(d) When she was older.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kanigel describe the trip to England?

2. What was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?

3. Where would Ramanujan's technique of solving math problems run into difficulty?

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's relationship with his wife?

5. Who was G. H. Hardy?

(see the answer key)

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