3. What did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?
(a) A bureaucratic appointment.
(b) A research position.
(c) A teaching position.
(d) A sinecure.

4. What did Hardy decide after conferring with John Littlewood?
(a) That Ramanujan was unstable.
(b) That Ramanujan was a genius.
(c) That Ramanujan was dangerous.
(d) That Ramanujan was a small thinker.

5. What did Hardy and Neville nominate Ramanujan to become?
(a) A teacher at King's College.
(b) A graduate student at Trinity.
(c) A fellow at Trinity College.
(d) A dean at Oriel College.

6. How does Kanigel describe English society from Ramanujan's point-of-view?
(a) Malicious.
(b) Effete.
(c) Rarefied.
(d) Homogenous.

7. What was it that offended Ramanujan when he invited some friends to dinner?
(a) The women declined a third helping.
(b) The men used salt.
(c) The friends criticized his cooking.
(d) The friends wanted to use silverware.

8. What does Kanigel say characterized Indian intellectuals' experience at Cambridge?
(a) Disorientation.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Frustration.
(d) Depression.

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

10. What was Euler's contribution to understanding partitions?
(a) An algorithm, but without values.
(b) A functional approximation.
(c) Notes on the performance of nested square roots.
(d) A theorem about series.

11. In his letter to Hardy, what was the importance of the thing Ramanujan claimed to have discovered?
(a) It was already common knowledge.
(b) It had been a mystery for years.
(c) No one under thirty had even tried it.
(d) It was just being discovered simultaneously at other math departments.

12. Based on his letter, what was Hardy trying to determine about Ramanujan?
(a) Whether he was a crank.
(b) Who his teachers had been.
(c) How he had devised his theories.
(d) Where he was from.

13. What other Indian thinker does Kanigel compare Ramanujan's experience with?
(a) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
(b) Ghandi.
(c) Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
(d) Anant Raje.

14. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan saw himself when he was returning to India?
(a) A demi-god.
(b) Not successful.
(c) A complete failure.
(d) A celebrity.

15. What was the doctor's prescription for Ramanujan's condition?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Radiation.
(c) Rest and care.
(d) Physical activity.