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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 does Kanigel say characterized Indian intellectuals' experience at Cambridge?
(a) Frustration.
(b) Depression.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Disorientation.

2. What was the result of Ramanujan clinging to his cultural practices?
(a) He taught English students how to cook Indian dishes.
(b) He generated fear and hostility in those around him.
(c) He brought Indian culture to English intellectuals.
(d) He remained an outsider.

3. How does Kanigel describe the value of Ramanujan's discovery?
(a) It revised several major mathematic theorems.
(b) It predicts the behavior of certain celestial bodies.
(c) It is still used today.
(d) It has yet to be disproved.

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

5. What value did Ramanujan work with at Cambridge?
(a) Avogadro's number.
(b) Pi.
(c) Real numbers.
(d) Chaitin's constant.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much of Ramanujan's work did Hardy believe was sound and original?

2. Who did Ramanujan stay with in England?

3. What was the doctor's diagnosis of Ramanujan's illness?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What problem kept Ramanujan from coming to England, as Hardy hoped he would?

2. What was Ramanujan's relationship with Cambridge after he left for India?

3. What was the conflict between Ramanujan's family and his wife?

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

5. What was Ramanujan's interest in pi?

6. What did Ramanujan write to Hardy?

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

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

9. Describe the decline of Ramanujan's health.

10. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.

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