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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Nine, The Endless Here and Now.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose painting was used in the experiments with the psychic, Malcolm Bessent?
(a) Fragonard.
(b) Van Gogh.
(c) Dali.
(d) Matisse.

2. By the simple act of _____, human beings could create order, according to the studies by Robert Jahn.
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Forgetting.
(c) Eating.
(d) Wishing.

3. Where was the swimming pool located that Pat Price was able to describe with ESP?
(a) Palo Alto.
(b) Berkley.
(c) Mill Valley.
(d) Sausolito.

4. 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) Sinister CIA operatives.
(c) Politicians and evangelists.
(d) Business people.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What chemical can be applied to DNA to squeezes itself into the base pairs of the double helix to cause the strand to split apart?

2. What machine added the ability to count light to the EMI 9558QA?

3. What was the term used to describe when a subject was able to discern, by use of ESP, where a traveler had been hours or days after the traveler had left?

4. 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 _____.

5. From his position as dean of an engineering school in the 1970's, Robert Jahn realized that the world stood poised on the brink of a major _____.

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