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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 is Namagiri?
(a) Ramanujan's religious teacher.
(b) Ramanujan's family's traditional deity.
(c) Ramanujan's chess teacher.
(d) Shiva's consort.

2. Who wrote 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?
(a) Enrico Betti.
(b) William George Horner.
(c) Frank Nelson Cole.
(d) George Carr.

3. What did Ramanujan attend at Pachaiyappas College?
(a) Physics classes.
(b) Chemistry classes.
(c) Biology classes.
(d) Math classes.

4. What class was Ramanujan raised in?
(a) Pancha-Dravida Brahmin.
(b) Pancha-Gauda Brahmin.
(c) Shaivite Brahmin.
(d) Maharashtra Brahmin.

5. What did Ramanujan's parents do in response to their impatience?
(a) Apprentice him to a designer.
(b) Buy him a bureaucratic appointment.
(c) Marry him off.
(d) Send him to school.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who were the Senior Wranglers?

2. Where did Ramanujan's parents find a wife for him?

3. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan disliked as a child?

4. How does Kanigel say Hardy saw himself, first and foremost?

5. How does Kanigel describe the skills Ramanujan got from 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ramanujan's place of birth.

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

3. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

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

5. Who were the Apostles?

6. What is Shiva the god of?

7. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

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

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

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

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