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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 did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?
(a) A teaching position.
(b) A sinecure.
(c) A research position.
(d) A bureaucratic appointment.

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

3. What was G. H. Hardy's status in Britain?
(a) Head of a secret society in London.
(b) Preeminent mathematician.
(c) Dean of Cambridge.
(d) Religious leader.

4. How does Kanigel describe the skills Ramanujan got from 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?
(a) Unorthodox.
(b) Flawed.
(c) Impeccable.
(d) Incorrect.

5. How long did the trip from India to England take?
(a) Two months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) A month.
(d) Three weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan learned from an old book?

2. When did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

3. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's solutions to the math problems in 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

4. What did Ramanujan's Master Theorem attempt to do?

5. What was Ramanujan's family's status?

(see the answer key)

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