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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What machine added the ability to count light to the EMI 9558QA?
(a) A photosynthesizer.
(b) A polyluminescence machine.
(c) A photomultiplier.
(d) A luminator.

2. Physicists view perfectly random activity as _____.
(a) Propulsion.
(b) Energy.
(c) Order.
(d) Disorder.

3. Dennis Gabor won the Nobel Prize in the 1940's for his discovery of _____ in his quest to produce a microscope powerful enough to see an atom.
(a) Nuclear fusion.
(b) Plasma communication.
(c) Radiation.
(d) Holography.

4. According to the author, the universe is a vast dynamic cobweb of _____.
(a) Human design.
(b) Stagnation.
(c) Energy exchange.
(d) Chance.

5. According to the author, Albert Enstein distrusted _____.
(a) Politicians.
(b) Rocket scientists.
(c) Quantum mechanics.
(d) Radioactivity.

6. What had Fritz-Albert Popp been teaching at the University of Marburg?
(a) Radiology.
(b) Neurobiology.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Jet propulson.

7. Who wrote Principia?
(a) Newton.
(b) Bohr.
(c) Einstien.
(d) Schrodinger.

8. How does the author describe Ed Mitchell's looks?
(a) As New England.
(b) As Midwestern.
(c) As rugged.
(d) As cosmopolitan.

9. Who was the editor of Nature Magazine when Jacques Benveniste's article was published?
(a) Alex Romero.
(b) George Conley.
(c) John Maddox.
(d) Ari Sengupta.

10. What did letters that poured into publications regarding the work of Jacques Benveniste say about it?
(a) It had some credibility.
(b) It was contradictory to pure science.
(c) It was a cruel hoax.
(d) It was pure genius.

11. Physicist David Bohm had a vision of a world of _____.
(a) Optimistic skepticism.
(b) Unbroken wholeness.
(c) Alien creatures.
(d) Complete order.

12. The ability of a quantum entity to influence another quantum particle instantaneously over any distance despite there being no change of force or energy is called _____.
(a) Magnetism.
(b) Shifting.
(c) Nonlocality.
(d) Profusion.

13. How many people had been on the moon before Ed Mitchell?
(a) Four.
(b) Seven.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Five.

14. What year did Fritz-Albert Popp think he had found a cure for cancer?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1990.

15. Where did Ed Mitchell grow up?
(a) Roswell, New Mexico.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Hot Springs, Arkansas.
(d) Salem, Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. The move away from randomness is termed by physicists as _____.

2. One of the fundamental laws of quantum physics says that an event in the subatomic world exists in all possible states until the act of observing it _____.

3. Where was physicist Albert Michelson born?

4. Russell and Karen DeValois wrote a book called _____.

5. Karl Pribram demonstrated that the brain contains a certain _____ which limits the otherwise infinite wave information available to it.

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