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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How would you characterize Kanigel's biography of Ramanujan?
(a) Partisan.
(b) Critical.
(c) Sumptuous.
(d) Adulatory.

3. What did Ramanujan do while he waited for his wife?
(a) Take a job in Madras.
(b) Travel South India.
(c) Live with his parents.
(d) Travel through Asia.

4. What is a nested square root?
(a) The framework of assumptions within which a series of square roots resolves to a negative number.
(b) A series of square roots that resolve to prime numbers.
(c) A series of square roots of square roots.
(d) An infinite series of square roots.

5. In his letter to Hardy, what did Ramanujan say he had discovered?
(a) A mistake in Hardy's theorems.
(b) A function for using irrational numbers in multi-variable calculus.
(c) A solution to a problem Hardy proposed.
(d) A theory of relativity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What language did Ramanujan speak?

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

3. Who is NOT included in the list of people who have benefited from Ramanujan's work, in Kanigel's account?

4. What position did Hardy take up after the position he left Cambridge for?

5. What was uncommon about Ramanujan's physique?

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