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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Zulu.
(b) Swahili
(c) Bantu.
(d) Kele.

2. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The theory of relativity.
(b) The M-Theory.
(c) The information theory.
(d) The Quantum theory.

3. The invention of what technology would make Shannon's theory of a computing machine practical?
(a) Circuit.
(b) Transistor.
(c) Network.
(d) Grid.

4. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?
(a) Lightning in the air could be detected by the operation of the telegraph.
(b) Weather disruptions could be detected when sending messages.
(c) Weather reports could be sent all over the world.
(d) Larger patterns of weather could be learned.

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

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. What was Shannon able to theoretically compute by measuring a message in bits? By measuring information in bits, he could theoretically compute the maximum amount of information that could be transmitted through a given channel.

3. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?

4. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?

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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