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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To catalog the entire English language.
(b) To alphabetize all words.
(c) To limit the work to only proper English.
(d) To provide the pronunciation of all words.

2. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?
(a) 1972
(b) 1949
(c) 1845
(d) 1902

3. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?
(a) Larger patterns of weather could be learned.
(b) Lightning in the air could be detected by the operation of the telegraph.
(c) Weather reports could be sent all over the world.
(d) Weather disruptions could be detected when sending messages.

4. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?
(a) It received government backing but was not considered practical.
(b) It was very well received in the mathematics community.
(c) It failed to receive governmental backing.
(d) It was very well received in academia.

5. How was the telephone superior to the telegraph?
(a) Anyone could use a phone.
(b) It was the preferred means of communications by government.
(c) Ease of use, no need for encoding of the message, and its availability.
(d) It was less expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What process can measure the limits of the human mind?

2. When were computers first unveiled?

3. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?

4. An alphabetical list did not take what element of the word into account at all, but mechanically placed it in a slot based on the order of the letters?

5. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

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