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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 was Ramanujan born?
(a) 1877.
(b) 1887.
(c) 1892.
(d) 1890.

2. What did parents see when they looked at Ramanujan as a prospective husband?
(a) A genius.
(b) An unemployed man.
(c) A criminal.
(d) A well-connected man.

3. What was Ramanujan's college's nickname?
(a) Cambridge of South India.
(b) Harvard of South India.
(c) Oxford of South India.
(d) The Bollytechnicum.

4. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Partial deafness.
(b) A limp.
(c) Swelling in his scrotum.
(d) Fevers.

5. Why did Ramanujan leave school?
(a) He was expelled.
(b) He got sick.
(c) He completed the coursework.
(d) His family could not afford it without the scholarship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupted Ramanujan's wedding?

2. Where was Ramanujan's college located?

3. When would Ramanujan and his wife consummate their marriage?

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

5. What was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Ramanujan go about looking for work?

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

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

5. What was Hardy's experience at Winchester?

6. What was the Bloomsbury Group?

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

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

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

10. What work did Ramanujan eventually find?

(see the answer keys)

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