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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who invented the telegraph?
(a) Alexander Graham Bell.
(b) Samuel Morse.
(c) Thomas Edison.
(d) Albert Einstein.

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

3. In his graduate paper, to what did Claude Shannon apply the binary logic of George Boole?
(a) To a logarithm table.
(b) To an advanced telegraph.
(c) To a system of relays.
(d) To circuit grid.

4. What was difficult for people to accept about telegraph communications?
(a) Why a physical message wasn't necessary.
(b) That it wasn't a fraud.
(c) That people could understand the tapping sounds.
(d) That electricity was essential in sending the messages.

5. How did the telegraph advance weather forecasting?
(a) Lightning in the air could be detected by the operation of the telegraph.
(b) Weather disruptions could be detected when sending messages.
(c) Weather reports could be sent all over the world.
(d) Larger patterns of weather could be learned.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did a young mathematician named Kurt Gödel conclude about conflicting statements?

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

3. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?

4. What society created the first numeric tables?

5. How were telegraph messages priced?

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