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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Ramanujan win a scholarship for his math skills?
(a) During high school.
(b) After high school.
(c) After middle school.
(d) After college.

2. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?
(a) Emphasis on grades.
(b) Competitiveness.
(c) Cricket.
(d) Rigid discipline.

3. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan learned from an old book?
(a) Algebra.
(b) Analytic trigonometry.
(c) The theory of relativity.
(d) Calculus.

4. What was Ramanujan's father's employment?
(a) Low-level clerk.
(b) Priest.
(c) Tradesman.
(d) Merchant.

5. How does Kanigel describe Hardy?
(a) As a technical worker.
(b) As a laborer.
(c) As a teacher.
(d) As a Brahmin.

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

7. What was Ramanujan like in school?
(a) He was a poor student.
(b) He excelled only in math.
(c) He liked math and science, but not literature.
(d) He was good at all his studies.

8. When was Ramanujan born?
(a) 1890.
(b) 1877.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1887.

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

10. Which person was NOT in the Bloomsbury Group?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) G.E. Moore.

11. Where did Ramanujan go when he was 17?
(a) Bengal.
(b) Madras.
(c) Uttar Pradesh.
(d) Delhi.

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

13. What contributed to Ramanujan's status as a potential husband?
(a) He was fat.
(b) He was monomaniacally interested in math.
(c) He was handsome.
(d) He was wealthy.

14. What happened to Ramanujan's scholarship?
(a) It was withdrawn.
(b) It was jeopardized by Ramanujan's poor grades.
(c) It was renewed for four years.
(d) It was expanded to his graduate study.

15. What class was Ramanujan raised in?
(a) Shaivite Brahmin.
(b) Maharashtra Brahmin.
(c) Pancha-Dravida Brahmin.
(d) Pancha-Gauda Brahmin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ramanujan's family's status?

2. What did Ramanujan need to do now that he was married?

3. When did Ramanujan begin to speak?

4. What is a nested square root?

5. How old was the wife Ramanujan's parents found?

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