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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. Nature Magazine dubbed the group of people in the lab of Jacques Benveniste ______________.
(a) The myth busters.
(b) The fraud squad.
(c) The science slammers.
(d) The atom splitters.

2. The move away from randomness is termed by physicists as _____.
(a) Entropy.
(b) Negentropy.
(c) Gravitational pull.
(d) Inertia.

3. Which university was thought to have the best neuroscience laboratory in the world in 1948?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Amherst.
(c) Yale.
(d) Princeton.

4. In quantum physics, quantum coherence means that _____ are able to cooperate.
(a) Molecules.
(b) Stars.
(c) Subatomic particles.
(d) People.

5. A fertilized egg starts to multiply and produces _____ cells.
(a) Son.
(b) Daughter.
(c) Mother.
(d) Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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 _____.

2. By the simple act of _____, human beings could create order, according to the studies by Robert Jahn.

3. Jacques Benveniste's laboratory at INSERM had been studying _____.

4. Where is the University of Marburg?

5. What is it called when the vibration of one body is reinforced by the vibration of another body at or near its frequency?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was American neuropsycholgist Karl Lashley trying to discover? What method did he use?

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

3. Why was quantum theory so hard to prove?

4. Why does the author characterize Bill Church as a loose cannon?

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

6. What was the Copenhagen interpretation? Why was it named this?

7. What is the Cartesian view of the body?

8. What happened on the way to Cone Crater?

9. How does the author describe the moon, according to Ed Mitchell's eyewitness view of it?

10. What radical concept did Robert Jahn play around with in his research?

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