The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the most probable state for an arrangement of molecules in a system?
(a) In an arc.
(b) In an organized line.
(c) In a jumble.
(d) Constantly and randomly movement.

3. What was the small device intended to replace bulky vacuum tubes perfected by Bell Laboratories called?
(a) The transistor.
(b) The relay.
(c) The grid.
(d) The circuit.

4. Charles Bennet went on to design what method for passing information?
(a) Passing information by bytes.
(b) Passing information by qubits.
(c) Passing information by circuit relays.
(d) Passing information by electrical networking.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?

3. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?

4. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?

5. What does a closed system made up of a hot part and a cold part attain as the heat passes from the hot part to the cold part?

(see the answer key)

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