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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Deciding how to buy which item might help children learn?
(a) Cereal.
(b) Pasta.
(c) Milk.
(d) Bread.

2. Things are often misused if they are ______.
(a) Understated.
(b) Abstract.
(c) Mathematical.
(d) Oversimplified.

3. What is often used to explain non-science?
(a) Double talk.
(b) Useless statistics.
(c) False reports.
(d) Nonsense.

4. Teaching which skill is helpful?
(a) Fraction conversion.
(b) Rounding numbers.
(c) Exponents.
(d) Decimals.

5. Which of the following is mentioned as being highly affected by lack of estimating skills?
(a) Scientists.
(b) Everyone.
(c) Math teachers.
(d) Politicians.

6. Is it insisted that children learn which functions?
(a) Advanced.
(b) Statistical.
(c) Rudimentary.
(d) Body.

7. What is CSICOP?
(a) Committee for Simple Conversion of Pi.
(b) Council for Studious Classification of Pythagoras.
(c) Committee for Scientific Claims of the Paranormal.
(d) Conclave of Scientists Clashing with Pseudoscience.

8. Who cannot teach simple math to students?
(a) Peers.
(b) Calculus professor.
(c) Parents.
(d) Elementary school teacher.

9. What famous doctor does Paulos consider to be an innumerate?
(a) Salk.
(b) Freud.
(c) Koop.
(d) Johnson.

10. Which doctor was the inventor's good friend?
(a) Wellby.
(b) Oppenheimer.
(c) Jung.
(d) Freud.

11. Paulos was encouraged to learn math because ____.
(a) Couldn't tell time.
(b) Wanted to learn about money.
(c) Childhood trauma.
(d) Father was a math teacher.

12. Paulos mentions which famous structure?
(a) Statue of Liberty.
(b) Sears Tower.
(c) Eiffel Tower.
(d) Empire State Building.

13. When does this occur?
(a) -5 GMT.
(b) At noon.
(c) At birth.
(d) Anytime.

14. At what age did the second doctor think he would die?
(a) 51.
(b) 47.
(c) 68.
(d) 72.

15. Which president is mentioned in the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Bush.
(c) Reagan.
(d) Jackson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paulos likes to debunk which of the following?

2. The author mentions sagas from which country?

3. Innumerates are more likely to believe in what?

4. What age is the child mentioned?

5. Paulos states that some people believe _______.

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