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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. Why did Claude Shannon's theory have to separate all meaning from information?
(a) In order to help educate people.
(b) In order to organize it.
(c) To treat it as an entity in itself.
(d) So that it was more understandable.

2. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?
(a) Its capacity for computation.
(b) Its computable nature.
(c) Its complexity.
(d) Its simplicity.

3. What library once helped writing from all over the known world?
(a) The famous library of the Roman Empire.
(b) The famous library at Alexandria.
(c) The famous library at Oxford.
(d) The famous library in Sparta.

4. How did 17th-century scholar Robert Burton react to information?
(a) He looked forward to reading the newspaper each day.
(b) He felt overwhelmed by the amount of news from each day.
(c) He thought a lot of the information was meaningless.
(d) He enjoyed receiving the information of the day.

5. What is unique about modern information?
(a) The different ways it is available.
(b) The amount of data available.
(c) The speed at which people receive information.
(d) The amount of data and the speed at which it travels.

Short Answer Questions

1. How can memes be altered?

2. What comment did IBM researcher Charles Bennet make about the amount of information in a message?

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

4. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

5. Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of entropy to describe what group?

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