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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?
(a) Made work easier.
(b) Cut down on errors and allowed for quicker calculations.
(c) Provided solutions.
(d) Eliminated calculations.

2. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?
(a) 1949
(b) 1972
(c) 1902
(d) 1845

3. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Electronic Messaging.
(b) Bell's Code.
(c) Morse Code.
(d) Tele-Com Messaging.

4. An alphabetical list did not take what element of the word into account at all, but mechanically placed it in a slot based on the order of the letters?
(a) Its popularity.
(b) Its importance.
(c) Its meaning.
(d) Its relevance.

5. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Radio waves.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Sub-Saharan drums.
(d) Morse code.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?

2. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?

3. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

4. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

5. What society created the first numeric tables?

(see the answer key)

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