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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?
(a) .1 to .5
(b) 1 and 100
(c) 2 and 4
(d) 0 and 1.

2. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?
(a) Switchboard operators.
(b) Secretaries.
(c) Office assistants.
(d) Call center personnel.

3. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?
(a) Advanced mathematics.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Computer science.
(d) Physics.

4. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?
(a) By creating their own code.
(b) By bribing the operators.
(c) By compressing the message.
(d) By not using it.

5. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The CAT scan.
(b) The telegram.
(c) The Differential Analyzer.
(d) The difference engine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing were working on separate cryptography project and shared what astounding possibility?

2. Each square of Turing's imaginary machine would have what coding?

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

4. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

5. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who first at the concept of "bandwith" and in what context was it first conceived?

2. What impact did the electric telegraph have on the world?

3. Who was Claude Shannon?

4. Who invented the telegraph and what is its fundamental functionality?

5. What were the two stages of a "bit" as conceived by Claude Shannon?

6. Who invented the "first" telegraph?

7. By reducing information to its elemental form, Claude Shannon opened up a new field of scientific inquiry that proved to have applications not only in communications, but in what other fields?

8. What was the purpose behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary?

9. What are the two "wordbooks" that Gleick refers to in this chapter?

10. Who developed the Principia Mathematica and what did it provide?

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