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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What percentage of possible fatality is almost always incorrect?
(a) 25%.
(b) 1%.
(c) 50%.
(d) 99%.

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

4. What is one of the most misunderstood items according to Paulos?
(a) Scientific notation.
(b) Large numbers.
(c) Calculators.
(d) Multiplication tables.

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

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

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

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

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

10. In what year did the Italian scientist make this discovery?
(a) 1618.
(b) 1573.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1349.

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

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

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

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

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

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. Which two presidents are discussed in reference to coincidence?

4. Which explorer is referenced?

5. What type of academic would most likely cringe over a misused word?

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