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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?
(a) By creating the first anti-virus element.
(b) By changing locations.
(c) By limiting data.
(d) By sending corrective bits of information.

2. What does the word "cybernetics" mean?
(a) The study of Internet crime.
(b) The study of robotics.
(c) The study of the relationship between man and machine.
(d) The same as computer science.

3. What did Shannon call the units of information that he was able to measure in a message?
(a) Data.
(b) Bits.
(c) Microns.
(d) Bytes.

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

5. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?
(a) Capturing electrical impulses.
(b) Logarithms.
(c) The Morse Code.
(d) Opening and closing the electric circuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many years ago was the first language established?

2. Where is DNA found?

3. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?

4. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?

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

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