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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?
(a) Early telephone developers.
(b) African drummers.
(c) Telegraph operators.
(d) The French telegraph inventors.

3. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?
(a) Computer science.
(b) Physics.
(c) Astronomy.
(d) Advanced mathematics.

4. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?
(a) To a system of relays.
(b) To a logarithm table.
(c) To circuit grid.
(d) To an advanced telegraph.

5. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?
(a) The Italians.
(b) The Egyptians.
(c) The Inca Culture.
(d) The Chinese.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

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

3. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

4. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?

5. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?

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