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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. Where was Ramanujan born?
(a) Kumbakonam.
(b) Uttar Pradesh.
(c) Erode.
(d) Madras.

2. What language did Ramanujan speak?
(a) Tamil.
(b) Hindi.
(c) Bengali.
(d) English.

3. What did parents see when they looked at Ramanujan as a prospective husband?
(a) A criminal.
(b) A genius.
(c) A well-connected man.
(d) An unemployed man.

4. What did Ramanujan need to do now that he was married?
(a) Make money.
(b) Have children.
(c) Buy a house.
(d) Contribute to his in-laws' income.

5. What is the British term for what Americans call private high schools?
(a) Private school.
(b) Public school.
(c) Finishing school.
(d) Technical school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Ramanujan publish his first journal article?

2. How does Kanigel describe education at Hardy's college?

3. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's early temperament?

4. What does Kanigel say people appreciated about Hardy?

5. What is a nested square root?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the Bloomsbury Group?

2. What does 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' consist of?

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

4. What work did Ramanujan eventually find?

5. How was it that Ramanujan would solve math problems without seeing the logic that dictated the development and solutions to problems?

6. What was Hardy's experience at Winchester?

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

8. How did Hardy explain the value of math to his family?

9. What was Hardy's experience at Trinity College, Cambridge?

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

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