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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Bell's Code.
(b) Morse Code.
(c) Tele-Com Messaging.
(d) Electronic Messaging.

2. What did Shannon bring to one of his meetings?
(a) A newly developed programming language.
(b) A computer scientist.
(c) A robot.
(d) A computer.

3. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) Thomas Fincke.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) John Napier.

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

5. What did Alan Turing reduce human thought to?
(a) Its basic elements.
(b) 0s and 1s.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Symbols.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?

2. What is DNA also known as?

3. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.

4. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

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

(see the answer key)

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