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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Alan Turing reduce human thought to?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Its basic elements.
(c) Symbols.
(d) 0s and 1s.

2. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?
(a) The drummer had to let those receiving the message figure out the right words.
(b) The main drummer was assisted by another drummer.
(c) The drummer added short descriptive phrases.
(d) The drummer added special emphasis.

3. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?
(a) The French Revolution.
(b) The Russian Revolution.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) World War I.

4. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Albert Einstein.

5. 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 relevance.
(c) Its importance.
(d) Its meaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?

2. The invention of what technology would make Shannon's theory of a computing machine practical?

3. What was Shannon able to theoretically compute by measuring a message in bits? By measuring information in bits, he could theoretically compute the maximum amount of information that could be transmitted through a given channel.

4. 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.

5. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

(see the answer key)

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