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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. Why are people able to recall the name of a tune?
(a) They associate music with certain events.
(b) People love music.
(c) It makes them remember good times.
(d) Recollection of tunes is stored in memes.

2. "Entropy" was first used by what individual to describe the unavailability of energy?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Galileo Galilei.
(c) Rudolph Clausius.
(d) Isaac Newton.

3. How can memes be altered?
(a) Through manipulation.
(b) After a serious illness.
(c) Through mutation and manipulation.
(d) Through mutation.

4. How does Wikipedia differ from the Encyclopedia Britannica?
(a) It is collaborative and descriptive but not up to date.
(b) It is collaborative and descriptive but not authoritative.
(c) It is not reliable.
(d) It contains questionable material.

5. When were computers first unveiled?
(a) Just before the Korean War.
(b) At the end of the Eisenhower administration.
(c) Pre-World War II.
(d) After World War II.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most probable state for an arrangement of molecules in a system?

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

3. What did mathematician Gregory Chaitin propose about Shannon's concept of entropy as uncertainty?

4. 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?

5. What can a computable number be compressed into?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When was the term "cybernetics" coined and what meaning was attached to it?

5. What are major differences between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Brittanica?

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

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

8. What did IBM research Charle Bennet write about "information" in the 1980s?

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

10. What was zoologist's Richard Dawkins' theory on DNA?

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