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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The electromagnetic frequencies that Jacques Benveniste studied in his experiments corresponded with frequencies _____.
(a) In the atmosphere.
(b) Of light.
(c) Of fusion.
(d) In the audio range.

2. What was the name of the gold insect-like lunar module that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Lunaria.
(c) Antares.
(d) Sputnik.

3. Robert Jahn decided that his REGs should be driven by an electronic noise source rather than _____.
(a) Nuclear fission.
(b) Natural gas.
(c) Nuclear fusion.
(d) Atomic decay.

4. What did Jacques Benveniste call the attitude toward his work?
(a) A Salem witchhunt.
(b) A crusade.
(c) A political move.
(d) A firing squad.

5. In classical physics, the experimenter was considered a _____.
(a) Catalyst.
(b) Nuisance.
(c) Participant.
(d) Separate entity.

6. The name coined by Wilder Penfield for the precise location in the brain where memories are stored is _____.
(a) A dendrite.
(b) An axon.
(c) A queue.
(d) An engram.

7. According to the author, gravity is the _____ of physics.
(a) Holy Grail.
(b) Waterloo.
(c) Second Coming.
(d) The Nirvana.

8. Where was the article published that influenced Helmut Schmidt as a student?
(a) Nature.
(b) Scientific American.
(c) The New York Times.
(d) Reader's Digest.

9. 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 _____.
(a) Freezes it.
(b) Devours it.
(c) Neutralizes it.
(d) Enhances it.

10. In quantum physics, quantum coherence means that _____ are able to cooperate.
(a) Molecules.
(b) Stars.
(c) People.
(d) Subatomic particles.

11. What is the lowest possible energy state called?
(a) Absolute zero.
(b) A vacuum.
(c) A black hole.
(d) Retrograde.

12. Where was "Chuck Yeager's flying circus" located?
(a) Death Valley.
(b) Joshua Tree.
(c) Moab.
(d) The Mojave Desert.

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

14. Which famous hospital offered Karl Pribram a job that he turned down?
(a) Eisenhower Medical Center.
(b) Mt. Sinai.
(c) Mayo Clinic.
(d) UCLA Medical Center.

15. Robert Jahn's view of parapsychology was that it was thought of by the scientific establishment as being the province of _____.
(a) Confidence tricksters and magicians.
(b) Business people.
(c) Sinister CIA operatives.
(d) Politicians and evangelists.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was America's first oil crisis?

2. Where did Helmut Schmidt attend school in 1948?

3. _____ claimed that the weaker the solution, the more powerful its effect.

4. What is a background substructure filled with things called?

5. It was the unique ability of quantum waves to store vast quantities of information in a totality and in _____.

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