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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Ramanujan's college's nickname?
(a) Cambridge of South India.
(b) Oxford of South India.
(c) The Bollytechnicum.
(d) Harvard of South India.

2. What did Ramanujan and Hardy develop for working with partitions?
(a) A refinement of Euler's suggestion.
(b) The circle method.
(c) A precise method for determining partitions for prime numbers.
(d) Nested square roots.

3. What was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?
(a) His assumptions.
(b) His proofs.
(c) His theorems.
(d) His conclusions.

4. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan distrusted in English society?
(a) Secret societies.
(b) Public transportation.
(c) School cafeterias.
(d) High tea.

5. Who was Leonard Euler?
(a) Hardy's protégé.
(b) A teacher at Cambridge.
(c) A brilliant mathematician to whom Hardy compared Ramanujan.
(d) Ramanujan's tutor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ramanujan leave school?

2. What did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?

3. Who met Ramanujan in England?

4. What does Kanigel say characterized Indian intellectuals' experience at Cambridge?

5. What is the British term for what Americans call private high schools?

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