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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Writing.
(b) Publishing houses.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Printing machines.

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

3. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?
(a) Passing the messages between too many operators.
(b) Poor weather conditions.
(c) Political unrest.
(d) Untrained workers.

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

5. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Thomas Fincke.
(d) John Napier.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Morse code comprised of?

2. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?

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

4. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

5. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?

(see the answer key)

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