1. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?
(a) John Simpson.
(b) Lord Byron.
(c) Isaac Newton.
(d) Ada Lovelace.

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

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

4. How did sub-Saharan African tribes communicate over long distances?
(a) By smoke signals.
(b) By drums.
(c) By witchcraft.
(d) By messenger.

5. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?
(a) Society and culture.
(b) The people and thinking that contributed to it.
(c) Origin and reliability of sources.
(d) Nation and type of governance.

Short Answer Questions

1. An alphabetical list did not take what element of the word into account at all, but mechanically placed it in a slot based on the order of the letters?

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

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

4. What society created the first numeric tables?

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

(see the answer key)

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