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

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

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

4. Why is modern society in information overload?
(a) Storing data on computers makes history writing easier.
(b) The expectation today is that all information should be preserved.
(c) Companies and people fear litigation.
(d) Electronic information is easier to store than physical information.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How much information does the universe hold?

2. When were computers first unveiled?

3. What did Chaitin propose using to express a computable number into another form?

4. What time of memory is most limited?

5. Why wasn't Shannon able to teach his computer to play a game?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was mathematician Gregory Chatin's concept on entropy?

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

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

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

5. What was the original meaning of the term "entropy"?

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

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

8. What are examples of memes?

9. What is the relationship between man and his memes?

10. How did Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of "entropy"?

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