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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?
(a) Pictures.
(b) Zeroes and ones.
(c) Codes.
(d) Numbers.

2. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Letters.
(b) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Numbers.

3. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?
(a) That machines could think.
(b) That machines could cure disease.
(c) That machines could take over the human race.
(d) That machines could have emotions.

4. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?
(a) The efficiency of a system.
(b) The availability of energy in a system.
(c) The temperature of a system.
(d) The functionality of a system.

5. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Calculations.
(b) Under-educated workers.
(c) Calculations and printing errors.
(d) Printing errors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture was the first to use a written language?

2. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?

3. How were telegraph messages priced?

4. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

5. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?

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