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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Circuit and grid.
(b) A transmitter and a receiver.
(c) Grid and network.
(d) Two relay switches.

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

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

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"?
(a) The transistor.
(b) The bit.
(c) The relay.
(d) The circuit.

5. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?
(a) Sequencing.
(b) Probability.
(c) Possibility.
(d) Normality.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?

2. How does heat travel?

3. What is the most probable state for an arrangement of molecules in a system?

4. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?

5. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?

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