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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years ago was the first language established?
(a) 100,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago.
(d) Between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago.

2. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?
(a) To better understand the use of words.
(b) To learn the history of language.
(c) The learn the alphabet.
(d) To understand the alphabets of the world.

3. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?
(a) 0 and 1.
(b) .1 to .5
(c) 1 and 100
(d) 2 and 4

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

5. What development was the last stage of writing?
(a) Phoenetics.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Symbolism.
(d) The numeric system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

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

3. Who invented the telegraph?

4. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?

5. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

(see the answer key)

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