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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?
(a) The English Language.
(b) The Written Word.
(c) Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) A Table Alphabeticall.

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

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) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Thomas Edison.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

2. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?

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

4. How many years ago was the first language established?

5. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?

(see the answer key)

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