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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The Quantum theory.
(b) The M-Theory.
(c) The information theory.
(d) The theory of relativity.

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

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

5. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?
(a) Morse code.
(b) Radio waves.
(c) The alphabet.
(d) Sub-Saharan drums.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the Morse code based on?

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

3. Prior to the electric telegraph, an invention by the same name was created by Claude Chappe and his brothers during what conflict?

4. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?

5. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?

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