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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 sending corrective bits of information.
(b) By changing locations.
(c) By creating the first anti-virus element.
(d) By limiting data.

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

3. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?
(a) Permanence.
(b) Records.
(c) Books.
(d) Education.

4. What is the modern meaning of "entropy"? "Entropy was not a kind of energy or an amount of energy," Gleick writes (p. 271). It was instead an abstract measurement of the unavailability of energy.
(a) an abstract measurement of the unavailability of cold.
(b) an abstract measurement of the unavailability of heat.
(c) An abstract measurement of the unavailability of energy.
(d) an abstract measurement of the unavailability of capacity.

5. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?
(a) Call center personnel.
(b) Switchboard operators.
(c) Office assistants.
(d) Secretaries.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the word "cybernetics" mean?

2. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?

3. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?

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

5. Who invented the telegraph?

(see the answer key)

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