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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Italians.
(d) The Inca Culture.

2. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Bantu.
(b) Kele.
(c) Swahili
(d) Zulu.

3. What culture was the first to use a written language?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Italian.
(c) Chinese.
(d) English.

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

5. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?
(a) Letters.
(b) Special couriers.
(c) The telegraph.
(d) The telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What society created the first numeric tables?

2. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?

3. An alphabetical list did not take what element of the word into account at all, but mechanically placed it in a slot based on the order of the letters?

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

5. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?

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