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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Shannon used the term entropy to have what meaning in reference to a message?
(a) Uncertainty.
(b) Importance.
(c) Certainty.
(d) Relevance.

2. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The telegram.
(b) The CAT scan.
(c) The difference engine.
(d) The Differential Analyzer.

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

4. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.
(b) She didn't want to embarrass her father.
(c) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.
(d) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.

5. How are memes replicated?
(a) Through imitation.
(b) Through the maturation process.
(c) In response to disease.
(d) Through cloning.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?

3. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?

4. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?

5. 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?

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