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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What number is used in the joke about the population of the city?
(a) 6.
(b) 18.
(c) 1,000.
(d) 120.

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

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

5. Where do the strangers live?
(a) Equator.
(b) Opposite sides of the country.
(c) New York.
(d) California.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another name for those not proficient in math?

2. What item in the structure is referenced?

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

4. Paulos often has people ask him about what?

5. What item of clothing is used in an example?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would embracing scientific notation help people with large numbers?

2. Who is the second famous doctor introduced by Paulos? Which topic was this doctor fascinated by?

3. What would be one of the easiest ways to reduce or eliminate errors?

4. What is the last principle discussed in chapter 1?

5. What do doctors often do that is mathematically incorrect?

6. Why does Paulos argue about the existence of coincidences?

7. The first example Paulos uses about percentages relates to weather forecasters. What is the mistake?

8. Where does the author believe most people fit in?

9. How is that encounter explained?

10. What is the example used to separate numerates from innumerates?

(see the answer keys)

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