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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Physics.
(c) Computer science.
(d) Advanced mathematics.

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

3. What society created the first numeric tables?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Babylonian.
(c) Roman.
(d) Egyptian.

4. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?
(a) Logarithms.
(b) The Morse Code.
(c) Capturing electrical impulses.
(d) Opening and closing the electric circuit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did people save money in sending telegraph messages?

2. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?

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

4. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?

5. How were telegraph messages priced?

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