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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) The base number.
(b) Pi.
(c) The square root.
(d) The logarithm.

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Issac Newton.
(b) John Napier.
(c) Charles Babbage.
(d) Galileo.

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

4. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?
(a) To better understand the use of words.
(b) The learn the alphabet.
(c) To learn the history of language.
(d) To understand the alphabets of the world.

5. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?
(a) Origin and reliability of sources.
(b) Nation and type of governance.
(c) The people and thinking that contributed to it.
(d) Society and culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

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

3. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

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

5. Who invented the telegraph?

(see the answer key)

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