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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Issac Newton.
(c) Charles Babbage.
(d) John Napier.

2. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The computer.
(c) The calculator.
(d) The difference analyzer.

3. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?
(a) 1845
(b) 1949
(c) 1972
(d) 1902

4. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) World War I.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

5. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Swahili
(b) Zulu.
(c) Bantu.
(d) Kele.

Short Answer Questions

1. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?

2. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?

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

4. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?

5. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?

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