2. How do people account for Ramanujan's self-assessment?
(a) Ramanujan's naïveté.
(b) Ramanujan's arrogance.
(c) Hardy's coldness.
(d) Overwork.

3. What were Ramanujan and Hardy looking for in their work on partitions?
(a) A way to bridge partitions.
(b) A point at which partitions broke down for prime numbers.
(c) A theorem that demonstrated how partitions operate in series.
(d) A way to define the number of partitions precisely.

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

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

6. What did Ramanujan work out in his research on constants?
(a) A foundation for Euler's constant.
(b) A new use for Euler's constant.
(c) An approximation of pi.
(d) A solution to pi.

7. Who developed an exact solution to the question of partitions?
(a) Euler.
(b) Hardy.
(c) Later mathematicians.
(d) Ramanujan.

8. What conflict did Ramanujan return to?
(a) His father and the authorities.
(b) His parents with his in-laws.
(c) His wife and his mother.
(d) His mother and father.

9. What society was Ramanujan elected to?
(a) Phi Beta Kappa.
(b) The Apostles.
(c) The Royal Society.
(d) The Academy of Sciences.

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

11. What did Ramanujan say he was willing to do in order to come to England?
(a) Abandon his wife.
(b) Work for Hardy.
(c) Be cast out of his Brahmin class.
(d) Borrow money.

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

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

14. How was Ramanujan treated on his return?
(a) As an untouchable.
(b) As a celebrity.
(c) As an exile.
(d) As an outcast.

15. How long did the trip from India to England take?
(a) Six weeks.
(b) A month.
(c) Two months.
(d) Three weeks.