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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 did Hardy try to arrange after receiving Ramanujan's letter?
(a) A meeting with Ramanujan.
(b) A scholarship for Ramanujan in India.
(c) Ramanujan's passage to England.
(d) A teaching position for Ramanujan.

2. How did Ramanujan respond to Hardy's request for proofs?
(a) He sent them immediately.
(b) He dragged his feet about sending them.
(c) He would send them if Hardy would help him financially.
(d) He said he could not produce them.

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

4. What did Ramanujan petition Cambridge for?
(a) A stipend.
(b) The right to return.
(c) Publication.
(d) An assistant.

5. What did Ramanujan say he was willing to do in order to come to England?
(a) Be cast out of his Brahmin class.
(b) Work for Hardy.
(c) Borrow money.
(d) Abandon his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kanigel describe the trip to England?

2. What is the state of Ramanujan's work now?

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

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

5. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's relationship with his wife?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What accolades did Ramanujan receive for his work?

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

8. Where did Ramanujan go when he reached England?

9. What was Ramanujan's Master Theorem intended to do?

10. What did Ramanujan write to Hardy?

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