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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?
(a) 1949
(b) 1902
(c) 1845
(d) 1972

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

3. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) Mark Twain.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) John Simpson.
(d) Thomas Edison.

4. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?
(a) Weather disruptions could be detected when sending messages.
(b) Lightning in the air could be detected by the operation of the telegraph.
(c) Larger patterns of weather could be learned.
(d) Weather reports could be sent all over the world.

5. What society created the first numeric tables?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) Babylonian.
(d) Roman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

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

3. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?

4. What were conflicting statements created by the Principia Mathematica called?

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

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