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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. When did Ramanujan begin to speak?
(a) Three years.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) Two years.
(d) One year.

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

3. How does Kanigel describe the seriousness of Ramanujan's condition?
(a) Debilitating.
(b) Life-threatening.
(c) Crippling.
(d) Not life-threatening but uncomfortable.

4. Which person was NOT in the Bloomsbury Group?
(a) Virginia Woolf.
(b) G.E. Moore.
(c) John Maynard Keynes.
(d) James Joyce.

5. Where did Hardy attend college?
(a) Linacre.
(b) Balliol.
(c) Trinity.
(d) Oriel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Namagiri?

2. Who was N. Ramanujachariar?

3. How long after the wedding would it take before Janaki joined Ramanujan?

4. What is a nested square root?

5. What did Ramanujan use as evidence of his credentials in interviews?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

2. What happened after Ramanujan left Pachaiyappas College?

3. How was Ramanujan's health as a child?

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

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

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

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

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

9. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

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

(see the answer keys)

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