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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?
(a) Galileo and Copernicus.
(b) Aristotle and Epecruis.
(c) Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead.
(d) Edwin Hubble and Isaac Newton.

2. 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) 1961.
(c) 1955.
(d) 1932.

3. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.
(a) He made them against the rules.
(b) He implemented exceptions into the system.
(c) Russell altered the Principia Mathematica to adjust for conflicting results.
(d) He ignored them since they were infrequent.

4. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She didn't want to embarrass her father.
(b) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.
(c) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.
(d) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.

5. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?
(a) A Table Alphabeticall.
(b) The Written Word.
(c) Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) The English Language.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?

2. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?

3. What was the Morse code comprised of?

4. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?

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

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