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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. What was Hardy's experience of secondary education like, according to Kanigel?
(a) He loved it.
(b) It transformed him into an upstanding citizen.
(c) He hated it.
(d) He passed through without distinction.

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

3. Who comprised the Apostles?
(a) Religious leaders.
(b) Undergrads.
(c) Practicing artists.
(d) Mathematicians.

4. What did Ramanujan discover when his friend Mahalanobis read a puzzle from the paper?
(a) The value of pi.
(b) A proof to all problems like that puzzle.
(c) The constant that resolves series to prime numbers.
(d) The mystical nature of numbers.

5. For how long would Ramanujan's condition persist?
(a) The rest of his life.
(b) A few years.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) A few months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was absent from the dock when Ramanujan's ship came in?

2. What did Hardy and Neville nominate Ramanujan to become?

3. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's theorems and formulas?

4. What cultural practice did Ramanujan insist on, in Kanigel's account?

5. What were the Tripos?

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