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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Under-educated workers.
(b) Calculations.
(c) Printing errors.
(d) Calculations and printing errors.

3. What results when a closed system's temperature evens out?
(a) There is no change.
(b) No work could be done.
(c) More work can be accomplished.
(d) The system fails.

4. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?
(a) By numbers.
(b) By characters.
(c) By codes.
(d) By images.

5. What time of memory is most limited?
(a) Repressed memory.
(b) Childhood memory.
(c) Long term memory.
(d) Short term memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?

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

3. What development was the last stage of writing?

4. What is the normal state of quantum particles?

5. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?

(see the answer key)

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