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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What society created the first numeric tables?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Babylonian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Chinese.

3. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.
(b) She didn't want to embarrass her father.
(c) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.
(d) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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