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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Tele-Com Messaging.
(b) Bell's Code.
(c) Morse Code.
(d) Electronic Messaging.

2. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Zeroes and ones.
(c) Pictures.
(d) Codes.

3. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?
(a) The history of discovery and travel.
(b) Prose and poetry.
(c) Philosophy and psychology.
(d) Mathematics, engineering, cryptography, railroads, and industrial machinery.

4. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?
(a) Poor weather conditions.
(b) Untrained workers.
(c) Passing the messages between too many operators.
(d) Political unrest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?

2. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?

3. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?

4. How many years ago was the first language established?

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

(see the answer key)

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