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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) A Table Alphabeticall.
(b) The Birth of Writing.
(c) The First Language.
(d) Oxford English Dictionary.

2. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
(a) 100,000.
(b) 22,278.
(c) 50,000.
(d) 2,500.

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

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

5. What new word did Claude Shannon, a mathematical researcher at Bell Labs, introduce in the in-house journal called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"?
(a) The relay.
(b) The transistor.
(c) The bit.
(d) The circuit.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

2. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

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

4. How many years ago was the first language established?

5. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

(see the answer key)

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