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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The computer.
(c) The difference analyzer.
(d) The calculator.

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

3. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) Thomas Fincke.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) John Napier.

4. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?
(a) To catalog the entire English language.
(b) To provide the pronunciation of all words.
(c) To alphabetize all words.
(d) To limit the work to only proper English.

5. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?
(a) By frequency of use.
(b) By topic.
(c) By order of the philosophers.
(d) By order of the king's scribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?

2. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?

3. 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?

4. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?

5. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?

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