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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 was proved correct in Ramanujan's work from this time?
(a) His theorems.
(b) His conclusions.
(c) His assumptions.
(d) His proofs.

2. Who learned of Ramanujan's arrival by the newspapers?
(a) His old patron.
(b) His wife.
(c) His in-laws.
(d) His mother.

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

4. What obstacle stood in the way of Hardy's plan?
(a) Ramanujan's inability to get a passport.
(b) Ramanujan's intractability.
(c) Ramanujan's poverty.
(d) Ramanujan's resistance to sea travel.

5. Who is NOT included in the list of people who have benefited from Ramanujan's work, in Kanigel's account?
(a) Physicists.
(b) Surgeons.
(c) Engineers.
(d) Computer scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hardy and his friends arrange for Ramanujan?

2. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan as a mathematical thinker?

3. How did Ramanujan spend all his time on returning to India?

4. In his letter to Hardy, what was the importance of the thing Ramanujan claimed to have discovered?

5. What was Ramanujan's intention when he returned home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Ramanujan discover when P. C. Mahalanobis read him a puzzle one evening?

2. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.

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

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

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

7. What has been the impact of Ramanujan's work?

8. How was Ramanujan treated on his return to India?

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

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

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