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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are the Apostles?
(a) Disciples of Hardy's.
(b) Religious figures in Rome.
(c) Artists.
(d) A secret society at Cambridge.

2. Who comprised the Apostles?
(a) Undergrads.
(b) Mathematicians.
(c) Religious leaders.
(d) Practicing artists.

3. Who was Komalatammal?
(a) Ramanujan's sister.
(b) Ramanujan's mother.
(c) Ramanujan's aunt.
(d) Ramanujan's teacher.

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

5. What was the effect of Ramanujan's childhood smallpox?
(a) Partial deafness.
(b) Pockmarks.
(c) A limp.
(d) Spinal deformity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Ramanujan need to do now that he was married?

2. What is a nested square root?

3. Where did Hardy attend college?

4. When did Ramanujan begin to speak?

5. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan would solve math problems?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ramanujan distinguish himself as a math student?

2. What work did Ramanujan eventually find?

3. How did Ramanujan go about looking for work?

4. Who were the Apostles?

5. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

6. What practices did Ramanujan follow as a result of his religion?

7. Describe Ramanujan's experience at Kumbakonam's Government College.

8. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

9. What was the Bloomsbury Group?

10. How did Ramanujan's temperament reveal itself when he was a child?

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