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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 difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
(a) Why a physical message wasn't necessary.
(b) That people could understand the tapping sounds.
(c) That it wasn't a fraud.
(d) That electricity was essential in sending the messages.

2. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?
(a) That it traveled in one direction.
(b) That it traveled in random directions with no pattern.
(c) That it traveled in many directions.
(d) That it was dynamic.

3. What society created the first numeric tables?
(a) Roman.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Babylonian.
(d) Egyptian.

4. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?
(a) By numbers.
(b) By characters.
(c) By codes.
(d) By images.

5. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?
(a) Normality.
(b) Probability.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Sequencing.

Short Answer Questions

1. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?

2. 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.

3. The invention of what technology would make Shannon's theory of a computing machine practical?

4. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?

5. What was the Morse code based on?

(see the answer key)

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