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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?
(a) Numeric.
(b) Alphabetical.
(c) Statistical.
(d) Random.

2. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?
(a) The Written Word.
(b) The English Language.
(c) A Table Alphabeticall.
(d) Oxford English Dictionary.

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

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

5. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The theory of relativity.
(b) The M-Theory.
(c) The Quantum theory.
(d) The information theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?

2. By 1930, what had replaced the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication?

3. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?

4. What development was the last stage of writing?

5. Who first defined the concept of "bandwith"?

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