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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's dress?
(a) Traditional Indian dress.
(b) A hybrid of Indian and English.
(c) A unique brand of slovenliness all his own.
(d) English dress.

2. Who met Ramanujan in England?
(a) Euler.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Neville.
(d) John Littlewood.

3. What does Kanigel say 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' is lacking?
(a) Translations.
(b) An answer key.
(c) Formulas.
(d) Proofs.

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

5. What were Ramanujan's parents getting impatient with?
(a) Ramanujan's insubordination.
(b) Ramanujan's scribbling in notebooks.
(c) Ramanujan's sloth.
(d) Ramanujan's failure to win prizes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did parents see when they looked at Ramanujan as a prospective husband?

2. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?

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

4. What does Kanigel say was Ramanujan's greatest talent?

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

(see the answer key)

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