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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is DNA also known as?
(a) Cells.
(b) Defining neutrino acid.
(c) Deoxyribonucleic acid.
(d) Amino acid.

2. What does a closed system made up of a hot part and a cold part attain as the heat passes from the hot part to the cold part?
(a) Equilibrium.
(b) Controlled environment.
(c) Neutrality.
(d) 32 degrees F.

3. Why is the randomness of numbers difficult to define?
(a) A number may be random to some but not to others.
(b) Numbers are infinite.
(c) Numbers send different messages.
(d) Numbers have an unpredictability.

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

5. When were computers first unveiled?
(a) Pre-World War II.
(b) Just before the Korean War.
(c) At the end of the Eisenhower administration.
(d) After World War II.

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

7. What are genes?
(a) Memory cells.
(b) Bits of information.
(c) RNA.
(d) Part of DNA.

8. Memes are messages that are independent of what other element?
(a) Of contradicting information.
(b) Of the people who propagate them.
(c) Of new messages.
(d) Of outside influence.

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

10. What did Charles Bennet prove about energy cost?
(a) That no matter what the circumstance, there was no energy cost.
(b) When information was erased was entropy changed and heat dissipated.
(c) When information was erased heat remained constant.
(d) When information was erased entropy did not change.

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

12. What is the premise of the story by Jorge Luis Borges entitled, "Library of Babel"?
(a) The library has the answers to all the mysteries of the universe.
(b) The library encompasses everything in the universe.
(c) The library encompasses everything thing that ever lived.
(d) The library encompasses all the energy of the universe.

13. What results when a closed system's temperature evens out?
(a) More work can be accomplished.
(b) No work could be done.
(c) There is no change.
(d) The system fails.

14. What library once helped writing from all over the known world?
(a) The famous library of the Roman Empire.
(b) The famous library at Alexandria.
(c) The famous library at Oxford.
(d) The famous library in Sparta.

15. What can a computable number be compressed into?
(a) A byte.
(b) A standard calculation.
(c) 0s and 1s.
(d) An algorithm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?

2. The universe has performed how many "operations"?

3. What was Rolf Landauer's opinion of John von Neumann's theory on the energy cost of information?

4. Charles Bennet went on to design what method for passing information?

5. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?

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