Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

John Allen Paulos
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 80 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

John Allen Paulos
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3 - Pseudoscience.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stadium is referenced?
(a) Veteran's Stadium.
(b) Wrigley Field.
(c) Yankee Stadium.
(d) Three Rivers Stadium.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which book in the Bible is quoted by Paulos?

2. What is Paulos' forte?

3. Which president is mentioned in the beginning of this chapter?

4. This doctor was fond of which topic?

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

(see the answer key)

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