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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) The Birth of Writing.
(b) A Table Alphabeticall.
(c) Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) The First Language.

2. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?
(a) Relay switches.
(b) Programming.
(c) Circuitry.
(d) A 0 or a 1.

3. 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.

4. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
(a) That electricity was essential in sending the messages.
(b) That people could understand the tapping sounds.
(c) Why a physical message wasn't necessary.
(d) That it wasn't a fraud.

5. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?
(a) That this feature could be computed.
(b) That this feature could cause programming to be very difficult.
(c) That this feature could cause errors.
(d) This this feature could not be computed.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?

2. What was the Morse code based on?

3. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?

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

5. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.

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