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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When were computers first unveiled?
(a) Just before the Korean War.
(b) Pre-World War II.
(c) After World War II.
(d) At the end of the Eisenhower administration.

2. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?
(a) Lord Byron.
(b) Isaac Newton.
(c) Ada Lovelace.
(d) John Simpson.

3. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?
(a) Advanced education.
(b) Increased population.
(c) Travel and conquest.
(d) International trade.

4. Why is the randomness of numbers difficult to define?
(a) A number may be random to some but not to others.
(b) Numbers have an unpredictability.
(c) Numbers send different messages.
(d) Numbers are infinite.

5. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Thomas Edison.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Samuel Morse.
(d) Albert Einstein.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do scientists consider the belief in God a meme?

2. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?

3. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?

4. The existence of what entity as a basic element of genetics had been theorized before the mechanics of genetic reproduction was fully understood?

5. How were telegraph messages priced?

(see the answer key)

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