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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 Ramanujan's father's employment?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Priest.
(c) Low-level clerk.
(d) Tradesman.

2. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan would solve math problems?
(a) By turning values into variables.
(b) By adding numbers to formulas.
(c) By solving one part at a time.
(d) He would intuit the solution.

3. When was Ramanujan born?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1877.
(d) 1892.

4. What did Ramanujan attend at Pachaiyappas College?
(a) Math classes.
(b) Biology classes.
(c) Chemistry classes.
(d) Physics classes.

5. What makes 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' notable, according to Kanigel?
(a) The dissertation does not have a conclusion.
(b) There is no explanation to the problems.
(c) The theorems do not have examples.
(d) The problems do not have solutions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did NOT contribute to Ramanujan's discomfort during the sea voyage to England?

2. What did Ramanujan and Hardy develop for working with partitions?

3. Where did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

4. When did Ramanujan die?

5. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan distrusted in English society?

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