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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) The Spanish-American War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The French Revolution.

2. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?
(a) By legend.
(b) In tribal strongholds.
(c) Word of wise men.
(d) In the mind.

3. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?
(a) The main drummer was assisted by another drummer.
(b) The drummer added special emphasis.
(c) The drummer added short descriptive phrases.
(d) The drummer had to let those receiving the message figure out the right words.

4. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?
(a) 1 and 100
(b) 2 and 4
(c) 0 and 1.
(d) .1 to .5

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?

3. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?

4. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

5. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?

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