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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What code did Claude Shannon apply to relay switches which could either be open or closed?
(a) 2 and 4
(b) .1 to .5
(c) 0 and 1.
(d) 1 and 100

2. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Printing errors.
(b) Calculations.
(c) Under-educated workers.
(d) Calculations and printing errors.

3. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?
(a) By frequency of use.
(b) By importance.
(c) Alphabetically.
(d) By popularity.

4. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
(a) 2,500.
(b) 50,000.
(c) 100,000.
(d) 22,278.

5. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?
(a) By topic.
(b) By order of the philosophers.
(c) By frequency of use.
(d) By order of the king's scribe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?

2. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?

3. What did Shannon call the units of information that he was able to measure in a message?

4. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?

5. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?

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