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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 energy does Kanigel say Ramanujan redirected into mathematics?
(a) Religious devotion.
(b) Political restlessness.
(c) Sexual desire.
(d) Troublemaking.

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

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

4. What does Kanigel say 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' is lacking?
(a) Proofs.
(b) Translations.
(c) An answer key.
(d) Formulas.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' notable, according to Kanigel?

2. Where did Hardy get his secondary education?

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

4. What is a nested square root?

5. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's solutions to the math problems in 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who were the Apostles?

3. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

4. Describe Ramanujan's place of birth.

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

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

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

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

9. What happened after Ramanujan left Pachaiyappas College?

10. What is Shiva the god of?

(see the answer keys)

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