2. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?
(a) To better understand the use of words.
(b) To learn the history of language.
(c) To understand the alphabets of the world.
(d) The learn the alphabet.

3. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?
(a) The French telegraph inventors.
(b) African drummers.
(c) Early telephone developers.
(d) Telegraph operators.

4. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?
(a) That machines could cure disease.
(b) That machines could take over the human race.
(c) That machines could think.
(d) That machines could have emotions.

5. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?
(a) To an advanced telegraph.
(b) To circuit grid.
(c) To a system of relays.
(d) To a logarithm table.

6. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?
(a) The drummer added short descriptive phrases.
(b) The drummer had to let those receiving the message figure out the right words.
(c) The drummer added special emphasis.
(d) The main drummer was assisted by another drummer.

7. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Circuit and grid.
(b) Two relay switches.
(c) Grid and network.
(d) A transmitter and a receiver.

8. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?
(a) New words.
(b) Word meanings.
(c) The history of alphabets.
(d) Alphabets of the world.

9. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?
(a) Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead.
(b) Edwin Hubble and Isaac Newton.
(c) Galileo and Copernicus.
(d) Aristotle and Epecruis.

10. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?
(a) The Morse Code.
(b) Opening and closing the electric circuit.
(c) Logarithms.
(d) Capturing electrical impulses.

11. 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 relevance.
(c) Its importance.
(d) Its popularity.

12. By 1930, what had replaced the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication?
(a) The computer.
(b) The two-way radio.
(c) Ship to shore communicators.
(d) The telephone.

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

14. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?
(a) Letters.
(b) Special couriers.
(c) The telephone.
(d) The telegraph.

15. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?
(a) Cut down on errors and allowed for quicker calculations.
(b) Made work easier.
(c) Provided solutions.
(d) Eliminated calculations.