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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What contributed to Ramanujan's status as a potential husband?
(a) He was wealthy.
(b) He was handsome.
(c) He was monomaniacally interested in math.
(d) He was fat.

3. In his letter to Hardy, what did Ramanujan say he had discovered?
(a) A theory of relativity.
(b) A mistake in Hardy's theorems.
(c) A function for using irrational numbers in multi-variable calculus.
(d) A solution to a problem Hardy proposed.

4. What position did Hardy take up after the position he left Cambridge for?
(a) A lectureship in India.
(b) A lowly teaching position.
(c) A comfortable fellowship at New College.
(d) The most exalted position in British mathematics.

5. How did Ramanujan spend all his time on returning to India?
(a) At the school where he taught.
(b) With his wife.
(c) With his parents.
(d) On math.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ramanujan interested in in this value?

2. Who learned of Ramanujan's arrival by the newspapers?

3. What did Ramanujan practice as part of his religion?

4. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's youth?

5. What were the Tripos?

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