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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Bell's Code.
(b) Electronic Messaging.
(c) Morse Code.
(d) Tele-Com Messaging.

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

3. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Thomas Fincke.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) John Napier.

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

5. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?
(a) 1972
(b) 1902
(c) 1845
(d) 1949

Short Answer Questions

1. How was "A Table Alphabeticall" intended to help people?

2. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?

3. What was changing language at the time the first English dictionary was developed?

4. Who was the sixth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary?

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

(see the answer key)

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