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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's theorems and formulas?
(a) Immaculate.
(b) Universally recognizable.
(c) Almost incomprehensible.
(d) Odd by English standards.

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

3. Who did Ramanujan stay with in England?
(a) Neville.
(b) John Littlewood.
(c) Hardy.
(d) Euler.

4. Who was Neville?
(a) Ramanujan's ambassador to Hardy.
(b) Ramanujan's Tutor.
(c) The dean at the university where Ramanujan was doing his research.
(d) Hardy's ambassador to Ramanujan.

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

6. What did Littlewood and Hardy see as mathematically important?
(a) Ramanujan's nested square roots.
(b) Ramanujan's detailed proofs.
(c) Ramanujan's infinite series.
(d) Ramanujan's use of irrational numbers.

7. What obstacle stood in the way of Hardy's plan?
(a) Ramanujan's inability to get a passport.
(b) Ramanujan's resistance to sea travel.
(c) Ramanujan's poverty.
(d) Ramanujan's intractability.

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

9. What value did Ramanujan work with at Cambridge?
(a) Avogadro's number.
(b) Real numbers.
(c) Pi.
(d) Chaitin's constant.

10. What cultural practice did Ramanujan insist on, in Kanigel's account?
(a) Daily prayers.
(b) Animal sacrifice.
(c) Visiting Hindu shrines.
(d) Vegetarianism.

11. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a mathematical thinker?
(a) Radical.
(b) Formalist.
(c) Constructivist.
(d) Classicist.

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

13. Who met Ramanujan in England?
(a) Neville.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Euler.
(d) John Littlewood.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When do mathematicians believe Ramanujan did his best work?

2. What was the doctor's prescription for Ramanujan's condition?

3. With whom did Ramanujan eventually begin to develop a real relationship, according to Kanigel?

4. What did Ramanujan discover when his friend Mahalanobis read a puzzle from the paper?

5. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's relationship with his wife?

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