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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?
(a) By order of the king's scribe.
(b) By frequency of use.
(c) By topic.
(d) By order of the philosophers.

2. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?
(a) The simplification of information.
(b) The rejection of too much information.
(c) The selection of relevant information.
(d) The ranking of important to less important information.

3. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?
(a) By smoke signals.
(b) By witchcraft.
(c) By drums.
(d) By messenger.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"

2. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?

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

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

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

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