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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?
(a) Education.
(b) Records.
(c) Books.
(d) Permanence.

2. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The Quantum theory.
(b) The information theory.
(c) The M-Theory.
(d) The theory of relativity.

3. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Albert Einstein.

4. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Radio waves.
(b) Morse code.
(c) The alphabet.
(d) Sub-Saharan drums.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

2. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?

3. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?

4. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?

5. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?

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