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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?
(a) By drums.
(b) By smoke signals.
(c) By messenger.
(d) By witchcraft.

2. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?
(a) Word of wise men.
(b) By legend.
(c) In the mind.
(d) In tribal strongholds.

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

4. 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.

5. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?
(a) The Morse Code.
(b) Logarithms.
(c) Capturing electrical impulses.
(d) Opening and closing the electric circuit.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

3. What was the Morse code based on?

4. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"

5. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

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