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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Euripedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Plato.

3. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To catalog the entire English language.
(b) To alphabetize all words.
(c) To provide the pronunciation of all words.
(d) To limit the work to only proper English.

4. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radio waves.
(c) The alphabet.
(d) Sub-Saharan drums.

5. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?
(a) Codes.
(b) Pictures.
(c) Zeroes and ones.
(d) Numbers.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?

3. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

4. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?

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

(see the answer key)

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