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

2. What item of clothing is used in an example?
(a) Skirt.
(b) Shoe.
(c) Coat.
(d) Sock.

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

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

5. What common structure is used in the comparison?
(a) Mall.
(b) Church.
(c) House.
(d) Garage.

Short Answer Questions

1. Paulos refers to which Italian scientist?

2. Who made one of the most important and yet simple mathematical discoveries?

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

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

5. What is the probability of people being directly linked?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the situation in the story handled? How did it involve probability?

2. What amusing example does Paulos use to illustrate the misunderstanding of numbers?

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

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

5. How is that encounter explained?

6. What is the Archimedes Principle?

7. How does Paulos compare misuse of language to the misuse of calculating probability?

8. Examine the first story told by Paulos in this chapter.

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

10. What is the coincidence surrounding Christopher Columbus?

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