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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are memes replicated?
(a) Through cloning.
(b) Through the maturation process.
(c) In response to disease.
(d) Through imitation.

2. What does Gleick compare the "Library of Babel" to?
(a) The Internet.
(b) Quantum consciousness.
(c) Search engines.
(d) The M-Theory.

3. How does heat travel?
(a) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a cold thing.
(b) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a warm thing.
(c) Heat can travel from a cold thing to a hot thing.
(d) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a hotter thing.

4. What is the modern meaning of "entropy"? "Entropy was not a kind of energy or an amount of energy," Gleick writes (p. 271). It was instead an abstract measurement of the unavailability of energy.
(a) an abstract measurement of the unavailability of heat.
(b) an abstract measurement of the unavailability of capacity.
(c) an abstract measurement of the unavailability of cold.
(d) An abstract measurement of the unavailability of energy.

5. What is the most probable state for an arrangement of molecules in a system?
(a) In an arc.
(b) In a jumble.
(c) Constantly and randomly movement.
(d) In an organized line.

6. Recognizing a famous painting like the Mona Lisa is attributed to what factor?
(a) Education.
(b) The meme.
(c) Memory.
(d) Bits.

7. Where does the Internet store memes?
(a) In databases.
(b) In search engines.
(c) In clouds.
(d) In the network.

8. Shannon used the term entropy to have what meaning in reference to a message?
(a) Certainty.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Importance.
(d) Relevance.

9. What did Shannon bring to one of his meetings?
(a) A computer.
(b) A computer scientist.
(c) A newly developed programming language.
(d) A robot.

10. What is the advantage of using quantum particles in the place of bits?
(a) A quantum computer could store more information.
(b) A quantum computer that can have many states at once.
(c) A quantum computer could process data much faster.
(d) A quantum computer would be more efficient.

11. What process can measure the limits of the human mind?
(a) Psychoanalytical evaluation.
(b) Information technology.
(c) Information theory.
(d) Knowledge management.

12. What are memes?
(a) Bits of information.
(b) Chromosomal genes.
(c) Repressive genes.
(d) Self-cloning genes.

13. At an exclusive meeting in New York City, Shannon commented that the English language had what characteristic?
(a) A recognizable rhythm.
(b) A specific entropy.
(c) A unique dynamism.
(d) A special intonation.

14. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?
(a) They are a kind of marker for cell multification.
(b) They are a kind of code for constructing an human cells.
(c) They are a kind of code for identifying an organism.
(d) They are a kind of code for constructing an organism.

15. The universe has performed how many "operations"?
(a) 10 to the 100th power "operations."
(b) 10 to the 120th power "operations."
(c) Over ten trillion "operations."
(d) An infinite number of "operations."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an algorithm?

2. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?

3. DNA is made up of of how many different nucleotides?

4. What can a computable number be compressed into?

5. What did Seth Lloyd, a quantum engineer at MIT, base his estimates on the universe on?

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