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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?
(a) Alphabetical.
(b) Numeric.
(c) Random.
(d) Statistical.

2. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?
(a) Overuse.
(b) Sunny skies.
(c) Fog and rain.
(d) Migratory seasons.

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

4. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?
(a) To understand the alphabets of the world.
(b) To better understand the use of words.
(c) To learn the history of language.
(d) The learn the alphabet.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

2. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

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

4. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

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

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