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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was the telephone superior to the telegraph?
(a) Anyone could use a phone.
(b) Ease of use, no need for encoding of the message, and its availability.
(c) It was less expensive.
(d) It was the preferred means of communications by government.

2. Who is Seth Lloyd?
(a) A quantum engineer at MIT.
(b) A astrophysicist at Stanford.
(c) A theoretical physicist at MIT.
(d) A physics professor at Harvard.

3. When were computers first unveiled?
(a) After World War II.
(b) Pre-World War II.
(c) Just before the Korean War.
(d) At the end of the Eisenhower administration.

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

5. How did Landauer disprove von Neumann's theory on the energy cost of information?
(a) Through extensive experiments.
(b) He was supported by others who agreed with him.
(c) There was no lost of vitality.
(d) Flipping a bit from one state to another did not change entropy..

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Internet without indexing?

2. 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?

3. What do early experiments show about entangled particles which are particles that are mysteriously linked to one another even over long distances?

4. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?

5. Why did businessmen immediately take to the telegraph?

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