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

2. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To catalog the entire English language.
(b) To provide the pronunciation of all words.
(c) To alphabetize all words.
(d) To limit the work to only proper English.

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

4. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?
(a) Logarithms.
(b) The Morse Code.
(c) Opening and closing the electric circuit.
(d) Capturing electrical impulses.

5. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) A transmitter and a receiver.
(b) Grid and network.
(c) Two relay switches.
(d) Circuit and grid.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?

3. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?

4. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

5. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?

(see the answer key)

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