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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What language do the drums of what is now Zaire mimic?
(a) Swahili
(b) Zulu.
(c) Bantu.
(d) Kele.

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

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

4. What results when a closed system's temperature evens out?
(a) The system fails.
(b) More work can be accomplished.
(c) No work could be done.
(d) There is no change.

5. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?
(a) The French telegraph inventors.
(b) Telegraph operators.
(c) Early telephone developers.
(d) African drummers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?

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

3. What was the Morse code comprised of?

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

5. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?

(see the answer key)

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