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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 conflict did Ramanujan return to?
(a) His parents with his in-laws.
(b) His wife and his mother.
(c) His father and the authorities.
(d) His mother and father.

2. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's dress?
(a) English dress.
(b) Traditional Indian dress.
(c) A unique brand of slovenliness all his own.
(d) A hybrid of Indian and English.

3. How was Ramanujan treated on his return?
(a) As a celebrity.
(b) As an untouchable.
(c) As an outcast.
(d) As an exile.

4. Who was absent from the dock when Ramanujan's ship came in?
(a) His friends.
(b) His wife.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

5. How does Kanigel describe English society from Ramanujan's point-of-view?
(a) Rarefied.
(b) Malicious.
(c) Homogenous.
(d) Effete.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the result of Ramanujan clinging to his cultural practices?

2. What practice does Kanigel say Ramanujan had difficulty adjusting to in England?

3. What did Littlewood and Hardy see as mathematically important?

4. What other Indian thinker does Kanigel compare Ramanujan's experience with?

5. What are partitions in math?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was Ramanujan's response when Hardy asked him for proofs?

2. Describe Ramanujan and Hardy's work on partitions.

3. How much did Ramanujan's bride share in his mathematical life?

4. Describe the decline of Ramanujan's health.

5. What did Ramanujan write to Hardy?

6. Where did Ramanujan go when he reached England?

7. Ramanujan kept extensive notes of his thinking. What was in Ramanujan's notebooks, and how much of his work was valuable, according to Kanigel?

8. What cultural practices did Ramanujan hold on to from India?

9. What accolades did Ramanujan receive for his work?

10. What was Ramanujan's condition when he returned to India?

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