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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Six, The Creative Observer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author calls Robert Goddard the father of American _____.
(a) Geophsyics.
(b) Quantum physics.
(c) Rocket science.
(d) Nuclear engineering.

2. What is the yellow liquid of the blood called?
(a) Basophil.
(b) Live water.
(c) Plasma.
(d) Granulation.

3. What is the lowest possible energy state called?
(a) A vacuum.
(b) A black hole.
(c) Absolute zero.
(d) Retrograde.

4. A Bose-Einsteing condensate is usually observed in material substances such as superfluids or superconductors studied in the laboratory in very _____ places.
(a) Arid.
(b) Cold.
(c) Warm.
(d) Humid.

5. What is it called when the vibration of one body is reinforced by the vibration of another body at or near its frequency?
(a) Clairvoyance.
(b) Resonance.
(c) Dissonance.
(d) Cognizance.

Short Answer Questions

1. After his space flight, Ed Mitchel began devouring books on _____.

2. Alexander Gurwitsch was credited with discovering mitogenetic radiation in _____ in the 1920's.

3. _____ claimed that the weaker the solution, the more powerful its effect.

4. What was Walter Stewart called as part of the group of people that the editor of Nature Magazine dubbed?

5. Which famous hospital offered Karl Pribram a job that he turned down?

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