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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Calculations and printing errors.
(b) Under-educated workers.
(c) Printing errors.
(d) Calculations.

2. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Printing machines.
(b) Publishing houses.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Writing.

3. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The difference analyzer.
(c) The calculator.
(d) The computer.

4. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Samuel Morse.

5. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?
(a) South America.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Asia.
(d) The Mediterranean region.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

2. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?

3. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

4. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?

5. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

(see the answer key)

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