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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How was the telephone superior to the telegraph?
(a) It was less expensive.
(b) It was the preferred means of communications by government.
(c) Anyone could use a phone.
(d) Ease of use, no need for encoding of the message, and its availability.

3. By 1930, what had replaced the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication?
(a) The telephone.
(b) Ship to shore communicators.
(c) The two-way radio.
(d) The computer.

4. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?
(a) To a system of relays.
(b) To a logarithm table.
(c) To an advanced telegraph.
(d) To circuit grid.

5. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

2. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?

3. What were conflicting statements created by the Principia Mathematica called?

4. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

5. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

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