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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(c) Symbols.
(d) Letters.

3. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?
(a) By characters.
(b) By codes.
(c) By images.
(d) By numbers.

4. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?
(a) Computer Science.
(b) Cryptography.
(c) The telephone.
(d) Writing.

5. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?
(a) By sending corrective bits of information.
(b) By changing locations.
(c) By creating the first anti-virus element.
(d) By limiting data.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?

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

4. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

5. Eliminating noise in Shannon's model meant looking at language in terms of what factor?

(see the answer key)

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