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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By 1930, what had replaced the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication?
(a) The computer.
(b) The two-way radio.
(c) Ship to shore communicators.
(d) The telephone.

2. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?
(a) Provided solutions.
(b) Eliminated calculations.
(c) Cut down on errors and allowed for quicker calculations.
(d) Made work easier.

3. Why do scientists consider the belief in God a meme?
(a) Memes control reactions to external influences.
(b) It has been passed from person to person.
(c) Because all beliefs are contained in memes.
(d) Most scientists are atheists.

4. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?
(a) By compressing the message.
(b) By bribing the operators.
(c) By creating their own code.
(d) By not using it.

5. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Advanced mathematics.
(c) Computer science.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?

3. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?

4. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?

5. 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.

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