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

2. DNA is made up of of how many different nucleotides?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Eight.
(d) Three.

3. Where is DNA found?
(a) Within the cells of every living thing.
(b) In newly forming cells.
(c) In the cells of the nervous system.
(d) Within the cells of every human being.

4. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?
(a) The number is too difficult to compress through computation.
(b) The number is too complex.
(c) It is impossible to work back from the number to find them.
(d) Because they are not computable.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of memory is most limited?

2. How do scientists categorize catchphrases like "Survival of the fittest" and "Read my lips"?

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

4. How does Gleick see the universe?

5. Why is the belief in God an enduring one?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What was the "Library of Babel" that was described in a story by Jorge Luis Borges?

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

4. What makes a number "computable?"

5. What did Dawkins attribute the belief in God to?

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

7. What estimates did Seth Lloyd, a quantum engineer at MIT, make about the power of the universe?

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

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

10. What was Erwin Schrodinger's theory about "genes"?

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