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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?
(a) Solitaire.
(b) Gin rummy.
(c) Chess.
(d) Monopoly.

2. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?
(a) That this feature could cause programming to be very difficult.
(b) That this feature could be computed.
(c) That this feature could cause errors.
(d) This this feature could not be computed.

3. What time of memory is most limited?
(a) Childhood memory.
(b) Short term memory.
(c) Long term memory.
(d) Repressed memory.

4. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) The base number.
(b) Pi.
(c) The logarithm.
(d) The square root.

5. Norbert Weiner developed a theory that had implications for the understanding of what system of the human body which might be thought of as a system of switches and signals.
(a) The nervous system.
(b) The artillery system.
(c) The circulatory system.
(d) The respiratory system.

Short Answer Questions

1. A psychologist named George Miller noticed that people seem to be able to easily remember up to how many items at a time?

2. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

3. What is an algorithm?

4. What can a computable number be compressed into?

5. What comment did IBM researcher Charles Bennet make about the amount of information in a message?

(see the answer key)

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