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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. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?
(a) Because they are not computable.
(b) The number is too complex.
(c) The number is too difficult to compress through computation.
(d) It is impossible to work back from the number to find them.

2. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She didn't want to embarrass her father.
(b) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.
(c) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.
(d) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.

3. The theories and work of what pioneer led to the computer age?
(a) Albert Einstein.
(b) Claude Shannon.
(c) Harry Nyquist.
(d) Rudolph Clausius.

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

5. What are genes?
(a) Memory cells.
(b) Part of DNA.
(c) RNA.
(d) Bits of information.

Short Answer Questions

1. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?

2. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?

3. Why wasn't Shannon able to teach his computer to play a game?

4. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?

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

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