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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. When did Ramanujan write to Hardy?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1913.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1909.

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

3. How does Kanigel describe the value of Ramanujan's discovery?
(a) It revised several major mathematic theorems.
(b) It predicts the behavior of certain celestial bodies.
(c) It has yet to be disproved.
(d) It is still used today.

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's youth?
(a) Devout.
(b) Idle.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Productive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ramanujan like in school?

2. What was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?

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

4. How does Kanigel describe the skills Ramanujan got from 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

5. What does Kanigel say was Ramanujan's greatest talent?

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