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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 the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?
(a) The relay.
(b) The circuit.
(c) The grid.
(d) The transistor.

2. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?
(a) By importance.
(b) By popularity.
(c) Alphabetically.
(d) By frequency of use.

3. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) John Simpson.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Thomas Edison.

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

5. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) The square root.
(b) Pi.
(c) The logarithm.
(d) The base number.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"

3. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?

4. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?

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

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