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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?
(a) By characters.
(b) By codes.
(c) By images.
(d) By numbers.

2. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) Oxford English Dictionary.
(b) The Birth of Writing.
(c) A Table Alphabeticall.
(d) The First Language.

3. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?
(a) The transistor.
(b) The grid.
(c) The relay.
(d) The circuit.

4. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?
(a) By frequency of use.
(b) By order of the king's scribe.
(c) By topic.
(d) By order of the philosophers.

5. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Writing.
(b) Publishing houses.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Printing machines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

2. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"

3. Who invented the telegraph?

4. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?

5. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?

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