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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What were conflicting statements created by the Principia Mathematica called?
(a) Recursive.
(b) False positives.
(c) Non-conclusive results.
(d) Circular arguments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?

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 society created the first numeric tables?

4. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?

5. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?

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