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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Thomas Fincke.
(d) John Napier.

2. How were telegraph messages priced?
(a) By the volume of messages.
(b) By the destination of the message.
(c) By the language the message was sent in.
(d) By the number of words.

3. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Sub-Saharan drums.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Radio waves.
(d) Morse code.

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

5. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?
(a) The telegraph.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Letters.
(d) Special couriers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?

2. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?

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

4. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?

5. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

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