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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Samuel Morse.
(b) Alexander Graham Bell.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Thomas Edison.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?

2. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?

3. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?

4. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?

5. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?

(see the answer key)

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