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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?
(a) By frequency of use.
(b) By importance.
(c) Alphabetically.
(d) By popularity.

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

3. How many years ago was the first language established?
(a) Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago.
(b) 100,000 years ago.
(c) 50,000 years ago.
(d) Between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago.

4. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?
(a) The grid.
(b) The transistor.
(c) The relay.
(d) The circuit.

5. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?
(a) Ada Lovelace.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) John Simpson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What society created the first numeric tables?

2. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?

3. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?

4. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?

5. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?

(see the answer key)

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