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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?
(a) Alphabets of the world.
(b) New words.
(c) The history of alphabets.
(d) Word meanings.

2. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?
(a) Plato.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Euripedes.
(d) Socrates.

3. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.
(a) He ignored them since they were infrequent.
(b) He implemented exceptions into the system.
(c) He made them against the rules.
(d) Russell altered the Principia Mathematica to adjust for conflicting results.

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

5. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?
(a) Untrained workers.
(b) Poor weather conditions.
(c) Political unrest.
(d) Passing the messages between too many operators.

Short Answer Questions

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

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. What did Shannon call the units of information that he was able to measure in a message?

4. By 1930, what had replaced the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication?

5. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?

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