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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The French Revolution.

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

3. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?
(a) The drummer added short descriptive phrases.
(b) The drummer had to let those receiving the message figure out the right words.
(c) The drummer added special emphasis.
(d) The main drummer was assisted by another drummer.

4. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(c) Letters.
(d) Symbols.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?

2. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?

3. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.

4. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

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

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