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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The computer.
(c) The difference analyzer.
(d) The calculator.

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

3. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
(a) 2,500.
(b) 22,278.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 50,000.

4. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Publishing houses.
(b) Writing.
(c) Printing machines.
(d) Pen and ink.

5. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?
(a) By order of the king's scribe.
(b) By order of the philosophers.
(c) By frequency of use.
(d) By topic.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What culture was the first to use a written language?

4. 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.

5. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?

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