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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shannon call the units of information that he was able to measure in a message?
(a) Bytes.
(b) Data.
(c) Microns.
(d) Bits.

2. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?
(a) By messenger.
(b) By smoke signals.
(c) By witchcraft.
(d) By drums.

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

4. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?
(a) Zeroes and ones.
(b) Numbers.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Codes.

5. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) The logarithm.
(b) The base number.
(c) Pi.
(d) The square root.

Short Answer Questions

1. What culture was the first to use a written language?

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

3. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?

4. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?

5. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?

(see the answer key)

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