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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?
(a) A 0 or a 1.
(b) Circuitry.
(c) Relay switches.
(d) Programming.

3. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?
(a) Communications.
(b) Cryptograms.
(c) Electronics.
(d) Computing.

4. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Grid and network.
(b) A transmitter and a receiver.
(c) Circuit and grid.
(d) Two relay switches.

5. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) Pi.
(b) The logarithm.
(c) The base number.
(d) The square root.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

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

4. An alphabetical list did not take what element of the word into account at all, but mechanically placed it in a slot based on the order of the letters?

5. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?

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