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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does heat travel?
(a) Heat can travel from a cold thing to a hot thing.
(b) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a hotter thing.
(c) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a warm thing.
(d) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a cold thing.

2. Recognizing a famous painting like the Mona Lisa is attributed to what factor?
(a) The meme.
(b) Education.
(c) Memory.
(d) Bits.

3. What type of information is contained in DNA?
(a) Information that is limited to the surrounding cells.
(b) Information key to survival.
(c) Information that is passed from generation to generation.
(d) Information that is unique to that organism.

4. What does Gleick compare the "Library of Babel" to?
(a) Search engines.
(b) Quantum consciousness.
(c) The M-Theory.
(d) The Internet.

5. The universe has performed how many "operations"?
(a) Over ten trillion "operations."
(b) An infinite number of "operations."
(c) 10 to the 100th power "operations."
(d) 10 to the 120th power "operations."

Short Answer Questions

1. What can a computable number be compressed into?

2. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?

3. What does the word "cybernetics" mean?

4. How does Wikipedia differ from the Encyclopedia Britannica?

5. A psychologist named George Miller noticed that people seem to be able to easily remember up to how many items at a time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comparison does the author make to the famous library at Alexandria?

2. What are "memes" as first proposed by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene"?

3. What fundamental problem is inherent in the observation of quantum particles?

4. What is the relationship between man and his memes?

5. What was discovered through the study of thermodynamics about the movement of energy?

6. What was found to be the make-up of DNA and what did these properties allow?

7. What did Dawkins attribute the belief in God to?

8. What is the normal state of molecules in a system? Describe that arrangement.

9. Norbert Weiner based his theory on what system of the human body?

10. When was the existence of DNA discovered and by whom?

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