Practice Questions: Real and Complex Analysis (19 March 2026)
Rahul Dattatraya Kitture, IIT Jammu
1. The function f (x) defined by
0 if x is rational
f (x) =
x if x is irrational
(a) is not continuous at any point.
(b) is continuous at every point.
(c) is continuous at every rational number.
(d) is continuous at = 0.
2. If f, g : R → R R are uniformly continuous functions, then their
composition g ◦ f is
(a) uniformly continuous.
(b) continuous but not uniformly continuous.
(c) continuous and bounded.
(d) None of the above.
3. If fn : [0, 1] → [0, 1] are continuous (n = 1, 2, 3, . . .) and if fn (x) →
f (x) as n → ∞, then which of the following statements is true?
(a) fn converges to f uniformly on [0, 1].
(b) fn converges to f uniformly on (0, 1).
(c) f is continuous on [0, 1].
(d) None of the above.
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4. Let f : [0, 1] → R be a 1-1 continuous function. Then
(a) f must be onto.
(b) range of f must contain a rational number.
(c) range of f must contain an irrational number.
(d) range of f must contain both rational and irrational numbers.
5. True/false? Any continuous function from the open unit interval (0, 1)
to itself has a fixed point.
6. A bounded continuous function on R is uniformly continuous.
7. True/false? If A ⊆ R is open with usual metric, then the interior of
the closure of A is A.
8. True/false? The composition of two uniformly continuous functions
need not always be uniformly continuous.
9. True/false? If f : [0, ∞] → [0, ∞] is continuous (with usual metric)
and bounded then f has a fixed point.
10. True/false? If every continuous function on X ⊆ R2 is bounded,
then X is compact.
11. True/false? The graph of xy = 1 in C2 is connected (i.e. the subset
{(x, y) ∈ C × C : xy = 1}
is connected with usual metric on C × C).
12. True/false? f : R → R be f (x) = sin(x3 ). Then f is continuous but
not uniformly continuous.
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13. True/false? Let X be a complete metric space such that distance
between any two points is less than 1. Then X is compact.
14. True/false? There exists a continuous onto/surjective map from C
to R \ {0} (with usual metric).
15. True/false? Let f : X → Y be a continuous map between metric
spaces. If f is a bijection, then its inverse is also continuous.
16. True/false? Let f be a function on [0, 1] defined by
x
if x is rational
f (x) =
x2 if x is irrational.
Then f is continuous at 0 and 1.
17. Let A, B, C be subsets of R. What is negation of following statement?
For every ε > 1, there exists a ∈ A and b ∈ B such that for all c ∈ C,
|a − c| < ε and |b − c| > ε.
(a) ∃ε ≤ 1, such that for all a ∈ A and b ∈ B, ∃ c ∈ C such that
|a − c| ≥ ε or |b − c| ≤ ε.
(b) ∃ε ≤ 1, such that for all a ∈ A and b ∈ B, ∃ c ∈ C such that
|a − c| ≥ ε and |b − c| ≤ ε.
(c) ∃ε > 1, such that for all a ∈ A and b ∈ B, ∃ c ∈ C such that
|a − c| ≥ ε and |b − c| ≤ ε.
(d) ∃ε > 1, such that for all a ∈ A and b ∈ B, ∃ c ∈ C such that
|a − c| ≥ ε or |b − c| ≤ ε.
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18. Let f : R → R be a continuous (with usual metric) bounded function.
Then
(a) f is uniformly continuous
(b) there exists an x ∈ R such that f (x) = x.
(c) f cannot be increasing.
(d) limx→∞ f (x) exists.
19. Let f : R → R be a continuous function such that
1
|f (x) − f (y)| ≥ |x − y|
2
for all x, y ∈ R. Then
(a) f is both one-to-one and onto
(b) f is one-to-one but may not be onto
(c) f is onto but may not be one-to-one
(d) f is neither one-to-one nor onto.
20. Let X be a metric space, Y be a closed subset of X such that the
distance between any two points in Y is at most 1. Then
(a) Y is compact
(b) any continuous function from Y → R is bounded
(c) Y is not an open subset of X
(d) none of the above.
21. Let f : R → R be a continuous function and let S be a non-empty
proper subset of R. Which one of the following statements is always true?
(Here A denotes the closure of A and Ao denotes the interior of A.)
(a) f (S)o ⊆ f (S o ). (b) f (S) ⊆ f (S).
(c) f (S) ⊇ f (S). (d) f (S)o ⊇ f (S o ).