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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The CAT scan.
(c) The telegram.
(d) The Differential Analyzer.

2. What was the Morse code based on?
(a) Numbers.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Dots and dashes.

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

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

5. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?
(a) A 0 or a 1.
(b) Circuitry.
(c) Relay switches.
(d) Programming.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are genes?

2. At an exclusive meeting in New York City, Shannon commented that the English language had what characteristic?

3. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

4. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?

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

(see the answer key)

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