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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. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?
(a) The ranking of important to less important information.
(b) The rejection of too much information.
(c) The selection of relevant information.
(d) The simplification of information.

2. How do scientists categorize catchphrases like "Survival of the fittest" and "Read my lips"?
(a) As memes.
(b) As memories.
(c) As bytes.
(d) As bits.

3. What happened to the library that once held all known information?
(a) It was buried during an eruption of Etna.
(b) It was destroyed when Sparta burned.
(c) It was burned when Alexandria was conquered.
(d) It was abandoned at Oxford when it was felt that there was too much information to store.

4. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?
(a) It was a code and it could be deciphered mathematically.
(b) It was dynamic and ever-changing.
(c) It was a code and it could be developed to duplicate.
(d) It was a code and it could be cloned.

5. Who suggested that the meaning of the word "entropy" mean the opposite of what it was originally, to describe the part of energy which was available to be converted into work?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Christian Doppler.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) James Clerk Maxwell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of entropy to describe what group?

2. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?

3. What is a fundamental problem in quantum mechanics?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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 examples of memes?

7. What are "memes" as first proposed by Richard Dawkins in "The Selfish Gene"?

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

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

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

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