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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. What development was the last stage of writing?
(a) The numeric system.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) The alphabet.
(d) Phoenetics.

2. What two disciplines of science were forced together by DNA?
(a) Medical research and genetics.
(b) Cellular and anatomical biologies.
(c) Molecular and evolutionary biologies.
(d) Biology and physics.

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

4. How were telegraph messages priced?
(a) By the volume of messages.
(b) By the number of words.
(c) By the language the message was sent in.
(d) By the destination of the message.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between humans and memes?

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

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

4. The early telegraph had trouble functioning under what conditions?

5. Norbert Weiner developed a theory that had implications for the understanding of what system of the human body which might be thought of as a system of switches and signals.

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