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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. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Plato.
(c) Euripedes.
(d) Socrates.

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

3. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) The square root.
(b) The logarithm.
(c) The base number.
(d) Pi.

4. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?
(a) John Simpson.
(b) Thomas Edison.
(c) Lord Byron.
(d) Mark Twain.

5. What was Shannon able to theoretically compute by measuring a message in bits? By measuring information in bits, he could theoretically compute the maximum amount of information that could be transmitted through a given channel.
(a) The maximum size a message could be.
(b) The virtual size of the message in microns.
(c) The limits of computing.
(d) The maximum amount of information that could be transmitted.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Morse code based on?

2. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?

3. What were conflicting statements created by the Principia Mathematica called?

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

5. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the purpose of Cawdrey's wordbook, "A Table Alphabeticall?"

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

3. How did the development of the written language assist Greek philosophers in advancing mankind?

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

5. In modern times, what innovation has had the most impact on language?

6. How was the "telephone number" born?

7. Who invented the "first" telegraph?

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

9. By the 1930s the telephone had replace the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication. What advantages did the telephone have over the telegraph?

10. Who was Claude Shannon?

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