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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What interrupted Ramanujan's wedding?

2. What distinguished Ramanujan's class?

3. Where did families NOT look for wives for their sons in India in Ramanujan's time?

4. Who was N. Ramanujachariar?

5. When did Ramanujan begin to speak?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened after Ramanujan left Kumbakonam's Government College?

2. Why did Ramanujan's parents have a hard time finding a wife for him?

3. What gods did Ramanujan's family worship?

4. How did Hardy explain the value of math to his family?

5. How did Ramanujan distinguish himself as a math student?

6. Describe Ramanujan's experience at Kumbakonam's Government College.

7. What was the subject of the challenge Ramanujan set and then resolved in his first paper?

8. Describe Ramanujan's place of birth.

9. What problems in Ramanujan's thinking came from his use of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics'?

10. Describe Ramanujan's wedding ceremony.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the importance of illness and bad health on Ramanujan's life. How did it shape his personality and his intellect? How did it weaken him? How did it strengthen him?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the role of Ramanujan's wife in his life and career. How important was it for him to be married? Was he married to someone or something else besides his wife?

Essay Topic 3

How English did Ramanujan become after he went to England? How Indian was he when he returned to India?

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