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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A correct answer is _______.
(a) Certain.
(b) Questionable.
(c) Dependent.
(d) A correct answer.

2. The author mentions sagas from which country?
(a) Iceland.
(b) Greece.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Norway.

3. Which capital city is mentioned?
(a) Washington, D.C.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Copenhagen.
(d) London.

4. What did Paulos dream about?
(a) A hut on a tropical island beach.
(b) Flying to the moon.
(c) Solving the world's largest word problem.
(d) Baseball.

5. Which skill is rarely taught?
(a) Factoring.
(b) Multiplication.
(c) Estimation.
(d) Transposing.

6. How many days is a woman's cycle?
(a) 28 days.
(b) 5 days.
(c) 23 days.
(d) 14 days.

7. Many people are numerate despite lack of:
(a) Practicing.
(b) Education.
(c) Studying.
(d) Private instruction.

8. What is the term for knowing something before it happens?
(a) Deja vu.
(b) Precognition.
(c) Coincidence.
(d) Lucky guess.

9. The city is the capital of which country?
(a) US.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Germany.
(d) Iceland.

10. What great writer is mentioned in this chapter?
(a) Dickens.
(b) Woolf.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Eliot.

11. Which doctor is referenced in this chapter?
(a) Curie.
(b) Salk.
(c) Shubert.
(d) Fleiss.

12. What is the best way to improve math skills?
(a) Reading math books.
(b) Practice.
(c) Study underlying philosophy.
(d) Teach another.

13. Which is taught in elementary schools?
(a) Algorithms.
(b) Subsets.
(c) Algebra.
(d) Trigonometry.

14. Most prevalent scenario involving innumerates includes what?
(a) Simple math.
(b) Tax forms.
(c) Long division.
(d) Cash register.

15. What did the invention reveal?
(a) How to calculate time zones.
(b) Human periodic cycles.
(c) Internal sleep clock.
(d) How to cure phobias.

Short Answer Questions

1. Children often fear what?

2. Which is not one of the algorithms mentioned?

3. Paulos likes to debunk which of the following?

4. Paulos mentions which famous structure?

5. The situation for mathematically uneducated high school students is:

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