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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What culture was the first to use a written language?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) Italian.
(d) English.

2. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?
(a) By numbers.
(b) By characters.
(c) By images.
(d) By codes.

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

4. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Morse Code.
(b) Electronic Messaging.
(c) Bell's Code.
(d) Tele-Com Messaging.

5. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?
(a) The telephone.
(b) Special couriers.
(c) The telegraph.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

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

3. "Entropy" was first used by what individual to describe the unavailability of energy?

4. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?

5. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?

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