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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Somewhat Indifferent Health.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's tutoring?
(a) Effective.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Incoherent.
(d) Unhelpful.

2. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's dress?
(a) English dress.
(b) A hybrid of Indian and English.
(c) Traditional Indian dress.
(d) A unique brand of slovenliness all his own.

3. When do mathematicians believe Ramanujan did his best work?
(a) Before he left for England.
(b) On the ship back to India.
(c) At Cambridge.
(d) During his illness.

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

5. What did Hardy and Neville nominate Ramanujan to become?
(a) A teacher at King's College.
(b) A graduate student at Trinity.
(c) A fellow at Trinity College.
(d) A dean at Oriel College.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hardy attend college?

2. Who met Ramanujan in England?

3. What was Ramanujan's religion?

4. Why did Hardy need to excel on the entrance exams for secondary education?

5. What was the effect of Ramanujan's childhood smallpox?

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