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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?
(a) Overuse.
(b) Fog and rain.
(c) Migratory seasons.
(d) Sunny skies.

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

3. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Euripedes.
(d) Socrates.

4. 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 circuit.
(b) The bit.
(c) The transistor.
(d) The relay.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were telegraph messages priced?

2. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?

3. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

4. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?

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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