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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) The First Language.
(b) A Table Alphabeticall.
(c) The Birth of Writing.
(d) Oxford English Dictionary.

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

3. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Bantu.
(b) Swahili
(c) Kele.
(d) Zulu.

4. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?
(a) Migratory seasons.
(b) Sunny skies.
(c) Overuse.
(d) Fog and rain.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

3. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?

4. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?

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

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