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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. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's early temperament?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Self-directed.
(c) Indistinct.
(d) Shy.

2. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?
(a) Rigid discipline.
(b) Cricket.
(c) Emphasis on grades.
(d) Competitiveness.

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

4. How does Kanigel describe Hardy?
(a) As a teacher.
(b) As a laborer.
(c) As a Brahmin.
(d) As a technical worker.

5. What was Hardy's experience of secondary education like, according to Kanigel?
(a) It transformed him into an upstanding citizen.
(b) He loved it.
(c) He hated it.
(d) He passed through without distinction.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did parents see when they looked at Ramanujan as a prospective husband?

2. What energy does Kanigel say Ramanujan redirected into mathematics?

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

4. When did Ramanujan begin to speak?

5. What does Kanigel say about Ramanujan's marriage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the difference between English mathematics and Continental mathematics.

4. Describe the importance of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' in Ramanujan's life.

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

6. What was Hardy's experience at Winchester?

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

8. Describe Ramanujan's place of birth.

9. What happened after Ramanujan left Pachaiyappas College?

10. Describe Ramanujan's experience at Pachaiyappas College in Madras.

(see the answer keys)

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