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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. What was Ramanujan like in school?
(a) He liked math and science, but not literature.
(b) He was good at all his studies.
(c) He was a poor student.
(d) He excelled only in math.

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

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

4. What was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?
(a) Where Ramanujan was buried.
(b) Ramanujan's mother's ancestral home.
(c) Where Ramanujan went to school.
(d) Ramanujan's hometown.

5. What does Kanigel say about Ramanujan's marriage?
(a) It was seen as fortuitous.
(b) There were omens of disaster.
(c) Both parties resisted it.
(d) It had all the ingredients for a lovely match.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Ramanujan win a scholarship for his math skills?

2. What language did Ramanujan speak?

3. What were Ramanujan's parents getting impatient with?

4. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?

5. What was Ramanujan's caste?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

2. What was the subject of the challenge Ramanujan set and then resolved in his first paper?

3. Describe Ramanujan's place of birth.

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

5. What was Hardy's experience at Winchester?

6. What problems in Ramanujan's thinking came from his use of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

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

8. Why did Ramanujan's parents have a hard time finding a wife for him?

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

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

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