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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 was the significance of Erode in Ramanujan's family?
(a) Ramanujan's hometown.
(b) Ramanujan's mother's ancestral home.
(c) Where Ramanujan went to school.
(d) Where Ramanujan was buried.

2. What did Ramanujan contract from a mosquito-borne disease?
(a) Fevers.
(b) Swelling in his scrotum.
(c) A limp.
(d) Partial deafness.

3. What does Kanigel say Ramanujan disliked as a child?
(a) Holidays.
(b) His family.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Other children.

4. For how long would Ramanujan's condition persist?
(a) A few years.
(b) A few months.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) The rest of his life.

5. What is a nested square root?
(a) The framework of assumptions within which a series of square roots resolves to a negative number.
(b) An infinite series of square roots.
(c) A series of square roots that resolve to prime numbers.
(d) A series of square roots of square roots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ramanujan's father's employment?

2. How does Kanigel describe education at Hardy's college?

3. Who gave Ramanujan money to study in Madras?

4. What is 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' composed of?

5. Who was G. H. Hardy?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Shiva the god of?

3. How did marriage change Ramanujan's life?

4. How did Ramanujan go about looking for work?

5. Describe the importance of 'A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics' in Ramanujan's life.

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

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

8. Describe Ramanujan's experience at Pachaiyappas College in Madras.

9. What led to Ramanujan getting married?

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

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