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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language did Ramanujan speak?
(a) English.
(b) Tamil.
(c) Bengali.
(d) Hindi.

2. Who is Namagiri?
(a) Shiva's consort.
(b) Ramanujan's religious teacher.
(c) Ramanujan's chess teacher.
(d) Ramanujan's family's traditional deity.

3. Where had the author of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' taught?
(a) Bern.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's youth?
(a) Devout.
(b) Productive.
(c) Indifferent.
(d) Idle.

5. What was uncommon about Ramanujan's physique?
(a) He had a limp.
(b) He had a humpback.
(c) He was overweight.
(d) He had six fingers on each hand.

6. What does Kanigel say about Ramanujan's marriage?
(a) It had all the ingredients for a lovely match.
(b) It was seen as fortuitous.
(c) There were omens of disaster.
(d) Both parties resisted it.

7. How does Kanigel describe education at Hardy's college?
(a) Students followed their own inclination in study.
(b) Students took a ferocious load of classes.
(c) Students worked together to make presentations to tutors.
(d) Students worked with tutors instead of taking classes.

8. Where did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?
(a) An English mathematics journal.
(b) An American mathematics journal.
(c) An Indian mathematics journal.
(d) An Italian mathematics journal.

9. 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.

10. What does Kanigel say people appreciated about Hardy?
(a) His long lineage.
(b) His youthful beauty.
(c) His wealth and taste.
(d) His irreverent sense of humor.

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

12. Why did Ramanujan leave school?
(a) He was expelled.
(b) He got sick.
(c) His family could not afford it without the scholarship.
(d) He completed the coursework.

13. What was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?
(a) Ramanujan's mother's ancestral home.
(b) Where Ramanujan went to school.
(c) Ramanujan's hometown.
(d) Where Ramanujan was buried.

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

15. Where did families NOT look for wives for their sons in India in Ramanujan's time?
(a) Extended family.
(b) Friends of the family.
(c) Neighbors.
(d) Prominent villagers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What contributed to Ramanujan's status as a potential husband?

2. What did Ramanujan's parents do in response to their impatience?

3. What class was Ramanujan raised in?

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

5. How does Kanigel say Hardy saw himself, first and foremost?

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