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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. The name coined by Wilder Penfield for the precise location in the brain where memories are stored is _____.
(a) A queue.
(b) An axon.
(c) An engram.
(d) A dendrite.

2. Which famous hospital offered Karl Pribram a job that he turned down?
(a) Eisenhower Medical Center.
(b) Mt. Sinai.
(c) UCLA Medical Center.
(d) Mayo Clinic.

3. What did letters that poured into publications regarding the work of Jacques Benveniste say about it?
(a) It was pure genius.
(b) It was a cruel hoax.
(c) It had some credibility.
(d) It was contradictory to pure science.

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

5. Where was "Chuck Yeager's flying circus" located?
(a) Moab.
(b) Death Valley.
(c) The Mojave Desert.
(d) Joshua Tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Newtonian view of physics says that everything works in a _____ manner.

2. According to the author, in universities ______ was blamed for America's stark polarization during the escalation of the Vietnam War.

3. The Eastern religions term the blind epiphany of meaning as _____, which is how Ed Mitchell felt coming back from the moon.

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

5. _____ might simply be a sudden coalescence of coherence in The Field.

Short Essay Questions

1. Why was quantum theory so hard to prove?

2. According to the author, how do microtubules and dendrites represent the Internet of the body?

3. What did Giuliano Preparata and Emilio Del Giudice try to explain? How did they do this?

4. Why does the author characterize Ed Mitchell as a truth seeker?

5. How did a particular woman in Jacques Benveniste's lab affect the results of his experiments?

6. What was the gist of Jacques Benveniste's response to John Maddox's reaction to his paper published in Nature Magazine?

7. What is renormalization, and where is it used?

8. What is the theory of Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship?

9. Who was Jean Fourier? What influence did his work have on Dennis Gabor?

10. Why does the author characterize Fritz-Albert Popp as a philosopher as much as a scientist?

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