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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. What did Chaitin mean by a "computable" number?
(a) A number that is not a variable.
(b) A number that could be expressed in a simpler form.
(c) A number that can be calculated.
(d) A number that could be expressed in its square root value.

2. What is the relationship between humans and memes?
(a) They are a co-dependent function.
(b) They operate independently.
(c) Memes are the slaves to man.
(d) Memes are the masters and men are the slaves.

3. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?
(a) Probability.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Sequencing.
(d) Normality.

4. At an exclusive meeting in New York City, Shannon commented that the English language had what characteristic?
(a) A special intonation.
(b) A specific entropy.
(c) A recognizable rhythm.
(d) A unique dynamism.

5. What process can measure the limits of the human mind?
(a) Information technology.
(b) Knowledge management.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Psychoanalytical evaluation.

Short Answer Questions

1. The connection of information with entropy and the physical realm proved to have applications in what type of physics?

2. What do early experiments show about entangled particles which are particles that are mysteriously linked to one another even over long distances?

3. Recognizing a famous painting like the Mona Lisa is attributed to what factor?

4. Why do scientists view quantum particles in terms of probability?

5. What does a closed system made up of a hot part and a cold part attain as the heat passes from the hot part to the cold part?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of "entropy"?

3. What was the original meaning of the term "entropy"?

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

5. What are examples of memes?

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

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

8. The connection of information with entropy and the physical realm was important to what physics discipline?

9. What was the "Library of Babel" that was described in a story by Jorge Luis Borges?

10. What was mathematician Gregory Chatin's concept on entropy?

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