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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?
(a) The English Language.
(b) Oxford English Dictionary.
(c) The Written Word.
(d) A Table Alphabeticall.

2. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?
(a) Overuse.
(b) Fog and rain.
(c) Sunny skies.
(d) Migratory seasons.

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

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) The French Revolution.
(c) The Spanish-American War.
(d) World War I.

5. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

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

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

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

5. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?

(see the answer key)

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