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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 say Ramanujan would solve math problems?
(a) By turning values into variables.
(b) By adding numbers to formulas.
(c) By solving one part at a time.
(d) He would intuit the solution.

2. What interrupted Ramanujan's wedding?
(a) A fight.
(b) A deranged woman.
(c) Objections from the girl's family.
(d) Drunken relatives.

3. What did Ramanujan practice as part of his religion?
(a) Community service.
(b) Animal sacrifice.
(c) Vegetarianism.
(d) A year as a monk.

4. What was G. H. Hardy's status in Britain?
(a) Head of a secret society in London.
(b) Religious leader.
(c) Preeminent mathematician.
(d) Dean of Cambridge.

5. How does Kanigel characterize Ramanujan's tutoring?
(a) Effective.
(b) Incoherent.
(c) Inspired.
(d) Unhelpful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Ramanujan leave school?

2. Who were the Senior Wranglers?

3. What did Hardy dislike about his secondary education?

4. Which god was Ramanujan's family devoted to?

5. Where did graduates from Hardy's secondary school typically go to college?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Ramanujan's interest change as he grew up?

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

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

6. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

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

8. How did Ramanujan go about looking for work?

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

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

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