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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?
(a) Writing.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Computer Science.
(d) Cryptography.

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

3. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?
(a) The people and thinking that contributed to it.
(b) Nation and type of governance.
(c) Origin and reliability of sources.
(d) Society and culture.

4. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?
(a) Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead.
(b) Edwin Hubble and Isaac Newton.
(c) Galileo and Copernicus.
(d) Aristotle and Epecruis.

5. Eliminating noise in Shannon's model meant looking at language in terms of what factor?
(a) Probability.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Randomness.
(d) Frequency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?

2. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?

3. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?

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

5. Who first defined the concept of "bandwith"?

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