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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 was Neville?
(a) Hardy's ambassador to Ramanujan.
(b) Ramanujan's Tutor.
(c) The dean at the university where Ramanujan was doing his research.
(d) Ramanujan's ambassador to Hardy.

2. What did Ramanujan work out in his research on constants?
(a) An approximation of pi.
(b) A foundation for Euler's constant.
(c) A solution to pi.
(d) A new use for Euler's constant.

3. Based on his letter, what was Hardy trying to determine about Ramanujan?
(a) Where he was from.
(b) How he had devised his theories.
(c) Whether he was a crank.
(d) Who his teachers had been.

4. What was Ramanujan's intention when he returned home?
(a) To bring his wife back to England.
(b) To teach in India.
(c) To stay in India for a few years.
(d) Never to return to England.

5. What does Kanigel say was Ramanujan's greatest talent?
(a) His calculations.
(b) His perception.
(c) His intuition.
(d) His associative abilities.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kanigel say characterized Indian intellectuals' experience at Cambridge?

2. How does Kanigel say Ramanujan saw himself when he was returning to India?

3. How did Ramanujan see himself socially, according to Kanigel?

4. How does Kanigel describe English society from Ramanujan's point-of-view?

5. What are partitions in math?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was Ramanujan's interest in pi?

3. Describe the decline of Ramanujan's health.

4. What problems did Ramanujan have on account of his Indian cultural practices?

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

6. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.

7. In what way was Ramanujan's experience of England similar to Ghandi's?

8. Where did Ramanujan go when he reached England?

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

10. What did Hardy do with Ramanujan's letter?

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