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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?
(a) Increased population.
(b) Advanced education.
(c) Travel and conquest.
(d) International trade.

2. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Printing errors.
(b) Calculations and printing errors.
(c) Under-educated workers.
(d) Calculations.

3. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
(a) That it wasn't a fraud.
(b) That electricity was essential in sending the messages.
(c) That people could understand the tapping sounds.
(d) Why a physical message wasn't necessary.

4. What society created the first numeric tables?
(a) Egyptian.
(b) Babylonian.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Roman.

5. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.
(b) She didn't want to embarrass her father.
(c) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.
(d) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?

2. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

3. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?

4. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?

5. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

(see the answer key)

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