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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) An engram.
(b) A dendrite.
(c) An axon.
(d) A queue.

2. Harold S. Burr was a _____.
(a) Neurochemist.
(b) Bioregenerist.
(c) Philanthropist.
(d) Neuroanatomist.

3. Where did Ed Mitchell grow up?
(a) Hot Springs, Arkansas.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Salem, Massachusetts.
(d) Roswell, New Mexico.

4. In what year was America's first oil crisis?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1955.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1989.

5. The Russian scientist Nikolai Bernstein was known for his _____.
(a) Books.
(b) Films.
(c) Clothing style.
(d) Arguments.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had Fritz-Albert Popp been teaching at the University of Marburg?

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

3. The controlled movement of an inanimate object by the use of psychic powers is called _____.

4. Russell and Karen DeValois wrote a book called _____.

5. Nature Magazine dubbed the group of people in the lab of Jacques Benveniste ______________.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Cartesian view of the body?

3. How do geneticists look at cell differentiation?

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

5. What happened on the way to Cone Crater?

6. Why does the author say the the French had not been well-represented in the field of science?

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

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

9. According to the author, how do photons switch on the body's processes?

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

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