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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?
(a) This this feature could not be computed.
(b) That this feature could cause programming to be very difficult.
(c) That this feature could cause errors.
(d) That this feature could be computed.

2. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) John Simpson.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Thomas Edison.

3. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?
(a) World War I.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Russian Revolution.

4. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) John Napier.
(b) Thomas Fincke.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Aristotle.

5. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The CAT scan.
(c) The Differential Analyzer.
(d) The telegram.

Short Answer Questions

1. The connection of information with entropy and the physical realm proved to have applications in what type of physics?

2. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

3. What was one of the innovative concepts that Dawkins proposed in "The Selfish Gene"?

4. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?

5. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?

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