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

2. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?
(a) That this feature could cause programming to be very difficult.
(b) That this feature could be computed.
(c) That this feature could cause errors.
(d) This this feature could not be computed.

3. What about DNA allows it to split and replicate?
(a) Its size.
(b) Its shape.
(c) Its strength.
(d) Its innate energy.

4. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?
(a) Its capacity for computation.
(b) Its simplicity.
(c) Its computable nature.
(d) Its complexity.

5. What do early experiments show about entangled particles which are particles that are mysteriously linked to one another even over long distances?
(a) They can send only limited information.
(b) They can be used to send information.
(c) The information they send is not reliable.
(d) They are useless in the transference of information.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is modern society in information overload?

2. A psychologist named George Miller noticed that people seem to be able to easily remember up to how many items at a time?

3. It had long been noted that physical traits were inheritable and that they had something to do with what other human element?

4. The elements of DNA come in predictable proportions of what shape?

5. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What comparison does the author make to the famous library at Alexandria?

2. What did IBM research Charle Bennet write about "information" in the 1980s?

3. When was the term "cybernetics" coined and what meaning was attached to it?

4. What is the normal state of molecules in a system? Describe that arrangement.

5. How did Gregory Chaitin characterize random numbers?

6. What are major differences between Wikipedia and the Encyclopedia Brittanica?

7. What was zoologist's Richard Dawkins' theory on DNA?

8. What was discovered through the study of thermodynamics about the movement of energy?

9. What are examples of memes?

10. What was Claude Shannon referring to by the term "entropy" and what was its importance?

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