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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Littlewood and Hardy see as mathematically important?
(a) Ramanujan's nested square roots.
(b) Ramanujan's use of irrational numbers.
(c) Ramanujan's infinite series.
(d) Ramanujan's detailed proofs.

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

3. What did Ramanujan work out in his research on constants?
(a) A solution to pi.
(b) An approximation of pi.
(c) A foundation for Euler's constant.
(d) A new use for Euler's constant.

4. Who is NOT included in the list of people who have benefited from Ramanujan's work, in Kanigel's account?
(a) Physicists.
(b) Computer scientists.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Surgeons.

5. How was Ramanujan treated on his return?
(a) As a celebrity.
(b) As an untouchable.
(c) As an exile.
(d) As an outcast.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Ramanujan stay with in England?

2. When was Ramanujan born?

3. What did the divergent series 1+2+3+4+5... add up to in Ramanujan's notebooks?

4. What did Hardy describe as his greatest accomplishment?

5. Where did Ramanujan go when he was 17?

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