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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 connection of information with entropy and the physical realm proved to have applications in what type of physics?
(a) Quantum physics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) Astrophysics.
(d) Theoretical physics.

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

3. It had long been noted that physical traits were inheritable and that they had something to do with what other human element?
(a) Genes.
(b) Chromosomes.
(c) DNA.
(d) Amino acids.

4. How does Gleick see the universe?
(a) As a colossal Internet.
(b) As an infinite stream of knowledge.
(c) As a giant computer.
(d) As a cloud of quantum particles.

5. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?
(a) As numbers that could not be identified.
(b) As numbers that could not be calculated.
(c) As numbers that could not be computed.
(d) As numbers that could not be defined.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How can memes be altered?

3. What did Chaitin determine about most numbers?

4. What is DNA also known as?

5. What does Gleick compare the "Library of Babel" to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has research shown about entangled particles and the transference of information?

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

3. What are examples of memes?

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

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

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

7. What was found to be the make-up of DNA and what did these properties allow?

8. What did psychologist George Miller discover about a person's ability to remember?

9. What fundamental problem is inherent in the observation of quantum particles?

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

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