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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What professional often makes major errors in calculating percentages?
(a) Doctor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Salesman.
(d) Math teacher.

2. How does the business man travel?
(a) Bus.
(b) Plane.
(c) Boat.
(d) Train.

3. In what did the doctor not believe?
(a) Surgery.
(b) Phobias.
(c) Coincidences.
(d) Vaccines.

4. What item in the stadium is used as an example?
(a) Players.
(b) Vendors.
(c) Bases.
(d) Seats.

5. What does the man carry to help with the problem?
(a) Thermometer.
(b) Bomb.
(c) Parachute.
(d) Gum.

6. What restaurant is referenced?
(a) Savoy.
(b) Four Seasons.
(c) Taco Bell.
(d) McDonalds.

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

8. What did the Italian scientist discover?
(a) Combustible fuel.
(b) Bubonic plague.
(c) Atom.
(d) Pluto.

9. What theory states that any number, no matter how large, can be achieved by adding smaller numbers together?
(a) The Archimedes Principle.
(b) Theory of Relativity.
(c) Euclid's Law.
(d) Pythagorean Theorem.

10. Paulos refers to which Italian scientist?
(a) Einstein.
(b) Fermi.
(c) Newton.
(d) Galileo.

11. Paulos often has people ask him about what?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Education.
(d) His family.

12. Which of the following is not in the list of things over which people become obsessed?
(a) Fate.
(b) Irony.
(c) Synchronicity.
(d) Coincidence.

13. Who is the first doctor mentioned?
(a) Jung.
(b) Freud.
(c) Einstein.
(d) Salk.

14. What is the name of the expert in this chapter?
(a) Euclid.
(b) Paulos.
(c) Newton.
(d) Pythagoras.

15. What item in the structure is referenced?
(a) Nails.
(b) Bricks.
(c) Windows.
(d) Doors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do people notice the coincidences?

2. What is one of the most misunderstood items according to Paulos?

3. What makes Paulos crazy about major math mistakes.

4. What type of doctor was he?

5. Which group does this coincidence often apply to?

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