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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?
(a) Solitaire.
(b) Gin rummy.
(c) Chess.
(d) Monopoly.

2. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
(a) Why a physical message wasn't necessary.
(b) That electricity was essential in sending the messages.
(c) That people could understand the tapping sounds.
(d) That it wasn't a fraud.

3. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1961.
(d) 1948.

4. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?
(a) To learn the history of language.
(b) To understand the alphabets of the world.
(c) The learn the alphabet.
(d) To better understand the use of words.

5. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Printing errors.
(b) Calculations.
(c) Calculations and printing errors.
(d) Under-educated workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?

2. How were telegraph messages priced?

3. What type of information is contained in DNA?

4. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?

5. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?

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