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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Entropy" was first used by what individual to describe the unavailability of energy?
(a) Rudolph Clausius.
(b) Galileo Galilei.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Albert Einstein.

2. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?
(a) Prose and poetry.
(b) Philosophy and psychology.
(c) Mathematics, engineering, cryptography, railroads, and industrial machinery.
(d) The history of discovery and travel.

3. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Radio waves.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Sub-Saharan drums.
(d) Morse code.

4. A psychologist named George Miller noticed that people seem to be able to easily remember up to how many items at a time?
(a) Seven.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

5. How can memes be altered?
(a) Through manipulation.
(b) Through mutation and manipulation.
(c) Through mutation.
(d) After a serious illness.

Short Answer Questions

1. How are memes replicated?

2. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?

3. What about DNA allows it to split and replicate?

4. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?

5. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

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