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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
(a) 22,278.
(b) 2,500.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 50,000.

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

3. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1948.
(d) 1961.

4. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
(a) The circuit.
(b) The transistor.
(c) The relay.
(d) The bit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?

2. What culture was the first to use a written language?

3. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?

4. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

5. What society created the first numeric tables?

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