1. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) A transmitter and a receiver.
(b) Circuit and grid.
(c) Two relay switches.
(d) Grid and network.

2. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?
(a) Cryptography.
(b) Computer Science.
(c) The telephone.
(d) Writing.

3. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) Pi.
(b) The base number.
(c) The logarithm.
(d) The square root.

4. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Kele.
(b) Zulu.
(c) Swahili
(d) Bantu.

5. What can the amount of information in a message be expressed in?
(a) By its integral number.
(b) By the bits it contains.
(c) By the computation that produces it.
(d) By the algorithm that produces it.

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 was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?

3. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?

4. What was one of the innovative concepts that Dawkins proposed in "The Selfish Gene"?

5. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?

(see the answer key)

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