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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the prologue to "The Information", what year does Gleick identify as a crucial year in the history of information and computing?
(a) 1948.
(b) 1932.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1961.

2. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?
(a) Statistical.
(b) Alphabetical.
(c) Random.
(d) Numeric.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?

4. What culture was the first to use a written language?

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

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