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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 the main form of communication in the late 1940s?
(a) The telegraph.
(b) The telephone.
(c) Special couriers.
(d) Letters.

2. What culture was the first to use a written language?
(a) Italian.
(b) Egyptian.
(c) English.
(d) Chinese.

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

4. There was no "looking up" of information prior to what invention?
(a) Publishing houses.
(b) Printing machines.
(c) Pen and ink.
(d) Writing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?

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

3. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

4. What uses one symbol to represent one "minimal sound"?

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

(see the answer key)

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