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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.
(a) He ignored them since they were infrequent.
(b) Russell altered the Principia Mathematica to adjust for conflicting results.
(c) He implemented exceptions into the system.
(d) He made them against the rules.

3. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
(a) The circuit.
(b) The relay.
(c) The bit.
(d) The transistor.

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

5. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?
(a) Businessmen could save money on travel expenses.
(b) Businesses did not have to hire as many workers.
(c) Orders no longer had to be hand written.
(d) Orders and market information could be transmitted quickly over long distances.

Short Answer Questions

1. What society created the first numeric tables?

2. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?

3. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?

4. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?

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

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