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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the probability of people being directly linked?
(a) 99%.
(b) 10%.
(c) 25%.
(d) 1%.

2. Which phrase is often used incorrectly?
(a) Play more and win more.
(b) Haste makes waste.
(c) A fool and his money are soon parted
(d) It's a small world.

3. Why do people notice the coincidences?
(a) Focus on bad things.
(b) Look for patterns.
(c) Focus on wins.
(d) Someone points them out.

4. Who was a giant in psychiatry?
(a) Curie.
(b) Jung.
(c) Koop.
(d) Salk.

5. The mathematician is from what country?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Greece.
(c) US.
(d) India.

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

7. What item helps mathematical illiterates understand the above theory?
(a) Division.
(b) Exponents.
(c) Subsets.
(d) Multiplication.

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

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

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

11. What about coincidence makes it the most noticeable among events?
(a) Focus.
(b) Fear.
(c) Research.
(d) Superstition.

12. Paulos denies that the personality is closely tied to which of the following?
(a) Nationality.
(b) Zodiac.
(c) Nature.
(d) Height.

13. What is Paulos' forte?
(a) Explaining coincidences.
(b) Solving riddles.
(c) Creating word problems.
(d) Devising new calculating systems.

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

15. How many bricks are in the wall?
(a) 10,000.
(b) 20,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 8,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. People seem to have the most trouble when dealing with what area of numbers?

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

3. In what year did the Italian scientist make this discovery?

4. What stadium is referenced?

5. What number is used in the joke about the population of the city?

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