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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 is modern society in information overload?
(a) Storing data on computers makes history writing easier.
(b) Electronic information is easier to store than physical information.
(c) Companies and people fear litigation.
(d) The expectation today is that all information should be preserved.

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?
(a) Its meaning.
(b) Its popularity.
(c) Its importance.
(d) Its relevance.

3. What does Gleick compare the "Library of Babel" to?
(a) The Internet.
(b) Quantum consciousness.
(c) The M-Theory.
(d) Search engines.

4. What does the word "cybernetics" mean?
(a) The study of the relationship between man and machine.
(b) The study of robotics.
(c) The same as computer science.
(d) The study of Internet crime.

5. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?
(a) The Russian Revolution.
(b) World War I.
(c) The French Revolution.
(d) The Spanish-American War.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are genes?

2. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?

3. The elements of DNA come in predictable proportions of what shape?

4. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.

5. Who is Seth Lloyd?

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