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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Charles Babbage.
(b) Galileo.
(c) John Napier.
(d) Issac Newton.

3. How were telegraph messages priced?
(a) By the number of words.
(b) By the destination of the message.
(c) By the volume of messages.
(d) By the language the message was sent in.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What development was the last stage of writing?

2. 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?

3. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?

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

5. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.

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