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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?
(a) Asia.
(b) The Mediterranean region.
(c) South America.
(d) Egypt.

2. How does heat travel?
(a) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a cold thing.
(b) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a hotter thing.
(c) Heat can travel from a cold thing to a hot thing.
(d) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a warm thing.

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

4. What results when a closed system's temperature evens out?
(a) No work could be done.
(b) There is no change.
(c) The system fails.
(d) More work can be accomplished.

5. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?
(a) Telegraph operators.
(b) Early telephone developers.
(c) African drummers.
(d) The French telegraph inventors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?

2. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?

3. What is a bit?

4. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

5. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?

(see the answer key)

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