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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do mathematicians believe Ramanujan did his best work?
(a) At Cambridge.
(b) Before he left for England.
(c) On the ship back to India.
(d) During his illness.

2. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's relationship with his wife?
(a) Almost non-existent.
(b) Friendly.
(c) Intimate.
(d) Hostile.

3. What was Ramanujan's intention when he returned home?
(a) Never to return to England.
(b) To teach in India.
(c) To stay in India for a few years.
(d) To bring his wife back to England.

4. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan passed his time on the ship?
(a) Sick.
(b) Playing games.
(c) Reading novels.
(d) Working feverishly.

5. What is the state of Ramanujan's work now?
(a) Not completely published.
(b) Fragmentary.
(c) Not completely collected.
(d) Completely published and evaluated.

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

7. What aspect of the English does Kanigel say affected Ramanujan?
(a) Intellectual rigor.
(b) Nationalism.
(c) Chauvinism.
(d) Affected coldness.

8. How much of Ramanujan's work did Hardy believe was sound and original?
(a) Half to three quarters.
(b) One to two thirds.
(c) Almost all of it.
(d) Five to ten percent.

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

10. With whom did Ramanujan eventually begin to develop a real relationship, according to Kanigel?
(a) His wife.
(b) His old friends.
(c) His patron.
(d) His in-laws.

11. What was Ramanujan interested in in this value?
(a) Its infinite nature.
(b) Underlying properties.
(c) The constant's practical value.
(d) The constant's irrationality.

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

13. How did Ramanujan spend all his time on returning to India?
(a) At the school where he taught.
(b) On math.
(c) With his parents.
(d) With his wife.

14. What did Ramanujan's Master Theorem attempt to do?
(a) Solve Fermat's Last Theorem.
(b) Formulate number theory.
(c) Integrate finite integrals.
(d) Reduce infinite series to prime numbers.

15. When did Ramanujan die?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what extent does Kanigel say Ramanujan blended in with Cambridge society?

2. In his letter to Hardy, what did Ramanujan say he had discovered?

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

4. What society was Ramanujan elected to?

5. What was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?

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