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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 goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To alphabetize all words.
(b) To provide the pronunciation of all words.
(c) To limit the work to only proper English.
(d) To catalog the entire English language.

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

3. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?
(a) By creating their own code.
(b) By bribing the operators.
(c) By not using it.
(d) By compressing the message.

4. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) John Simpson.
(c) Ada Lovelace.
(d) Lord Byron.

5. 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 circuit.
(c) The relay.
(d) The bit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?

2. What society created the first numeric tables?

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

4. What was the Morse code comprised of?

5. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?

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