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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Somewhat Indifferent Health.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Ramanujan's parents do in response to their impatience?
(a) Buy him a bureaucratic appointment.
(b) Marry him off.
(c) Send him to school.
(d) Apprentice him to a designer.

3. What does Kanigel say prevented Ramanujan from getting the care he needed?
(a) The fight between his wife and mother.
(b) His distance from the cultural centers.
(c) His family's poverty.
(d) The Great War.

4. How did Ramanujan see himself socially, according to Kanigel?
(a) As a celebrity.
(b) As a Brahmin.
(c) As a mathematician.
(d) As a citizen.

5. What did Ramanujan practice as part of his religion?
(a) A year as a monk.
(b) Community service.
(c) Vegetarianism.
(d) Animal sacrifice.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ramanujan like in school?

2. How does Kanigel describe life in Ramanujan's hometown?

3. What is the British term for what Americans call private high schools?

4. What was Ramanujan interested in in this value?

5. What did Ramanujan and Hardy develop for working with partitions?

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