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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Publishing houses.
(b) Writing.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Printing machines.

2. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?
(a) Weather reports could be sent all over the world.
(b) Lightning in the air could be detected by the operation of the telegraph.
(c) Larger patterns of weather could be learned.
(d) Weather disruptions could be detected when sending messages.

3. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Issac Newton.
(c) John Napier.
(d) Charles Babbage.

4. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Bantu.
(b) Kele.
(c) Swahili
(d) Zulu.

5. What development was the last stage of writing?
(a) Phoenetics.
(b) The numeric system.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) The alphabet.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?

2. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

3. What culture was the first to use a written language?

4. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?

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

(see the answer key)

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