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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?
(a) Permanence.
(b) Education.
(c) Books.
(d) Records.

2. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Grid and network.
(b) Circuit and grid.
(c) Two relay switches.
(d) A transmitter and a receiver.

3. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?
(a) John Simpson.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Ada Lovelace.
(d) Isaac Newton.

4. What is a bit?
(a) The smallest amount of useful information.
(b) The average size of piece of information.
(c) The size of a datum.
(d) A micron of information.

5. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?
(a) In tribal strongholds.
(b) In the mind.
(c) Word of wise men.
(d) By legend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

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

3. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?

4. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?

5. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?

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