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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Issac Newton.
(c) John Napier.
(d) Charles Babbage.

2. What is a bit?
(a) The smallest amount of useful information.
(b) The average size of piece of information.
(c) A micron of information.
(d) The size of a datum.

3. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?
(a) Physics.
(b) Advanced mathematics.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Computer science.

4. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The CAT scan.
(b) The difference engine.
(c) The Differential Analyzer.
(d) The telegram.

5. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) Oxford English Dictionary.
(b) The First Language.
(c) The Birth of Writing.
(d) A Table Alphabeticall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the intent of the Principia Mathematica?

2. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?

3. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?

4. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"

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

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