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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How are memes replicated?
(a) Through cloning.
(b) Through imitation.
(c) Through the maturation process.
(d) In response to disease.

2. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?
(a) By order of the philosophers.
(b) By frequency of use.
(c) By topic.
(d) By order of the king's scribe.

3. How did Landauer disprove von Neumann's theory on the energy cost of information?
(a) Through extensive experiments.
(b) Flipping a bit from one state to another did not change entropy..
(c) He was supported by others who agreed with him.
(d) There was no lost of vitality.

4. By 1930, what had replaced the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication?
(a) The computer.
(b) Ship to shore communicators.
(c) The telephone.
(d) The two-way radio.

5. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?
(a) The people and thinking that contributed to it.
(b) Origin and reliability of sources.
(c) Nation and type of governance.
(d) Society and culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?

2. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

3. Why is the belief in God an enduring one?

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

5. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

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