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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Landauer disprove von Neumann's theory on the energy cost of information?
(a) He was supported by others who agreed with him.
(b) Flipping a bit from one state to another did not change entropy..
(c) There was no lost of vitality.
(d) Through extensive experiments.

2. What about DNA allows it to split and replicate?
(a) Its strength.
(b) Its shape.
(c) Its innate energy.
(d) Its size.

3. What is unique about modern information?
(a) The amount of data and the speed at which it travels.
(b) The speed at which people receive information.
(c) The amount of data available.
(d) The different ways it is available.

4. What did Chaitin determine about most numbers?
(a) That they can be compressed to manageable entities.
(b) That they are not computable.
(c) That they are computable.
(d) That they have complex alogarithms.

5. What is the normal state of quantum particles?
(a) They exist in an unknown state.
(b) They exist in a cloud of probable states all at once.
(c) They exist in a subdued state.
(d) The exist in an electrically charged state.

Short Answer Questions

1. Charles Bennet went on to design what method for passing information?

2. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

3. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?

4. What two main strategies have been developed to cope with the volume of today's information?

5. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?

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