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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
(a) The transistor.
(b) The bit.
(c) The relay.
(d) The circuit.

2. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Samuel Morse.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

4. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?
(a) Random.
(b) Alphabetical.
(c) Statistical.
(d) Numeric.

5. How many years ago was the first language established?
(a) Between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago.
(b) Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago.
(c) 100,000 years ago.
(d) 50,000 years ago.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?

2. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?

3. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?

4. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?

5. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

(see the answer key)

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