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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How were telegraph messages priced?
(a) By the number of words.
(b) By the volume of messages.
(c) By the language the message was sent in.
(d) By the destination of the message.

2. 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.

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

4. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?
(a) By witchcraft.
(b) By drums.
(c) By messenger.
(d) By smoke signals.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?

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

4. What was the Morse code comprised of?

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

(see the answer key)

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