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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4 - Whence Innumeracy?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What piece of office equipment is mentioned?
(a) Copier.
(b) Typewriter.
(c) Telephone.
(d) Computer.

2. What do people often use to rationalize things?
(a) Back talk.
(b) Psychoanalysis.
(c) Escape clause.
(d) Reverse logic.

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

4. Who made one of the most important and yet simple mathematical discoveries?
(a) Freud.
(b) Paulos.
(c) Newton.
(d) Archimedes.

5. What type of doctor was he?
(a) Medical doctor.
(b) Phd in Physics.
(c) Psychoanalyst.
(d) Research Scientist.

Short Answer Questions

1. People often compare which event?

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

3. Which skill is used daily?

4. When is the rain supposedly going to take place?

5. Who is used as one of the examples?

(see the answer key)

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