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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What about DNA allows it to split and replicate?
(a) Its size.
(b) Its innate energy.
(c) Its strength.
(d) Its shape.

3. 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.

4. What is an algorithm?
(a) A mathematical theory.
(b) A set of instructions for arriving at a certain result.
(c) A complex calculation.
(d) An algebraic formula.

5. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?
(a) That machines could have emotions.
(b) That machines could cure disease.
(c) That machines could take over the human race.
(d) That machines could think.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?

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

3. Who suggested that the meaning of the word "entropy" mean the opposite of what it was originally, to describe the part of energy which was available to be converted into work?

4. What development was the last stage of writing?

5. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?

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