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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 describe Ramanujan as a potential husband?
(a) Uninteresting.
(b) Undesirable.
(c) Appealing.
(d) Frightful.

2. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Swelling in his scrotum.
(b) Partial deafness.
(c) A limp.
(d) Fevers.

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

4. Who wrote 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?
(a) Frank Nelson Cole.
(b) George Carr.
(c) William George Horner.
(d) Enrico Betti.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was N. Ramanujachariar?

2. What class was Ramanujan raised in?

3. Where would Ramanujan's technique of solving math problems run into difficulty?

4. What conflict did Ramanujan return to?

5. Who was Neville?

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