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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?
(a) South America.
(b) The Mediterranean region.
(c) Asia.
(d) Egypt.

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

4. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The Quantum theory.
(b) The M-Theory.
(c) The information theory.
(d) The theory of relativity.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?

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

3. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

4. How many years ago was the first language established?

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

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