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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. Paulos jokes about how many hamburgers?
(a) 9.
(b) 300.
(c) 120.
(d) 800.

2. Where do the strangers live?
(a) Opposite sides of the country.
(b) Equator.
(c) New York.
(d) California.

3. What did the explorer discover?
(a) America.
(b) Polio vaccine.
(c) Fountain of Youth.
(d) Spice Islands.

4. Who made one of the most important and yet simple mathematical discoveries?
(a) Newton.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Freud.
(d) Paulos.

5. What is the probability of 2 people being linked by 2 intermediates?
(a) 75%.
(b) 99%.
(c) 56%.
(d) 1%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a giant in psychiatry?

2. What item in the structure is referenced?

3. Which of the following is not in the list of things over which people become obsessed?

4. Where was the inventor from?

5. Which phrase is often used incorrectly?

Short Essay Questions

1. The first example Paulos uses about percentages relates to weather forecasters. What is the mistake?

2. Who is the second famous doctor introduced by Paulos? Which topic was this doctor fascinated by?

3. What is the coincidence surrounding Christopher Columbus?

4. How was the situation in the story handled? How did it involve probability?

5. What amusing example does Paulos use to illustrate the misunderstanding of numbers?

6. What is the example used to separate numerates from innumerates?

7. Examine the first story told by Paulos in this chapter.

8. Where does the author believe most people fit in?

9. Why does Paulos argue about the existence of coincidences?

10. Discuss the first of the most famous examples of coincidence.

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