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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What culture was the first to use a written language?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Chinese.
(c) English.
(d) Italian.

2. What was the Morse code based on?
(a) Numbers.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Dots and dashes.
(d) Symbols.

3. "Entropy" was first used by what individual to describe the unavailability of energy?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Galileo Galilei.
(d) Rudolph Clausius.

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

5. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?
(a) Weather disruptions could be detected when sending messages.
(b) Lightning in the air could be detected by the operation of the telegraph.
(c) Weather reports could be sent all over the world.
(d) Larger patterns of weather could be learned.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

3. Eliminating noise in Shannon's model meant looking at language in terms of what factor?

4. What society created the first numeric tables?

5. What is the modern meaning of "entropy"? "Entropy was not a kind of energy or an amount of energy," Gleick writes (p. 271). It was instead an abstract measurement of the unavailability of energy.

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