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

2. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Writing.
(b) Printing machines.
(c) Publishing houses.
(d) Pen and ink.

3. The elements of DNA come in predictable proportions of what shape?
(a) Double spiral.
(b) Double helix.
(c) Figure eight.
(d) Infinity symbol.

4. What has the Internet changed about the storing of information?
(a) Structure.
(b) Organization.
(c) Computer literacy.
(d) Efficiency.

5. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?
(a) As numbers that could not be computed.
(b) As numbers that could not be identified.
(c) As numbers that could not be defined.
(d) As numbers that could not be calculated.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?

2. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?

3. 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?

4. What problem is presented by today's information?

5. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?

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