View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another name for those not proficient in math?
(a) Innumerates.
(b) Illiterates.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Morons.

2. People often compare which event?
(a) Birthdays.
(b) Shoe size.
(c) Age.
(d) Anniversaries.

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

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

5. Which explorer is referenced?
(a) Vespucci.
(b) Columbus.
(c) Cortez.
(d) Magellan.

6. When is the rain supposedly going to take place?
(a) Weekend.
(b) Friday.
(c) Wednesday.
(d) Monday.

7. Which group does this coincidence often apply to?
(a) Gamblers.
(b) Taxi drivers.
(c) Children.
(d) Seniors.

8. What would make math easier for people?
(a) Giving everyone a calculator.
(b) Making it personal.
(c) Destroying all calculators.
(d) Spelling it out.

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

10. Notation makes more sense than?
(a) Calculations.
(b) Words.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Diagrams.

11. This doctor was fond of which topic?
(a) Vaccines.
(b) Fate.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Synchronicity.

12. According to the text how many adults are there in the US?
(a) 100 million.
(b) 300 million.
(c) 250 million.
(d) 200 million.

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

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

15. What word does the author use to describe mathematical errors?
(a) Nonsensical.
(b) Irritating.
(c) Egregious.
(d) Erroneous.

Short Answer Questions

1. What stadium is referenced?

2. What theory states that any number, no matter how large, can be achieved by adding smaller numbers together?

3. Each person knows approximately how many people?

4. The first stranger's wife went to what kind of camp?

5. What item in the stadium is used as an example?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 262 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample