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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. Where did Ramanujan move to?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) London.
(c) Bristol.
(d) Oxford.
2. How does Kanigel describe Ramanujan's dress?
(a) A unique brand of slovenliness all his own.
(b) A hybrid of Indian and English.
(c) English dress.
(d) Traditional Indian dress.
3. What did Hardy decide after conferring with John Littlewood?
(a) That Ramanujan was a genius.
(b) That Ramanujan was unstable.
(c) That Ramanujan was dangerous.
(d) That Ramanujan was a small thinker.
4. How do people account for Ramanujan's self-assessment?
(a) Overwork.
(b) Ramanujan's arrogance.
(c) Hardy's coldness.
(d) Ramanujan's naïveté.
5. What aspect of the English does Kanigel say affected Ramanujan?
(a) Chauvinism.
(b) Affected coldness.
(c) Nationalism.
(d) Intellectual rigor.
Short Answer Questions
1. How was Ramanujan treated on his return?
2. Who developed an exact solution to the question of partitions?
3. What did Ramanujan discover when his friend Mahalanobis read a puzzle from the paper?
4. In his letter to Hardy, what was the importance of the thing Ramanujan claimed to have discovered?
5. What did Ramanujan work out in his research on constants?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Ramanujan discover when P. C. Mahalanobis read him a puzzle one evening?
2. What problems did Ramanujan have on account of his Indian cultural practices?
3. Describe Ramanujan's trip to England.
4. What has been the impact of Ramanujan's work?
5. What was Ramanujan's decline like, and death?
6. What was Ramanujan's response when Hardy asked him for proofs?
7. Where did Ramanujan go when he reached England?
8. What problem kept Ramanujan from coming to England, as Hardy hoped he would?
9. What was Ramanujan's relationship with Cambridge after he left for India?
10. What cultural practices did Ramanujan hold on to from India?
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