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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the system of dots and dashes used to communicate telegrams called?
(a) Tele-Com Messaging.
(b) Electronic Messaging.
(c) Bell's Code.
(d) Morse Code.

2. What did MIT scholar Vannevar Bush create?
(a) The difference engine.
(b) The telegram.
(c) The Differential Analyzer.
(d) The CAT scan.

3. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) The First Language.
(b) A Table Alphabeticall.
(c) Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) The Birth of Writing.

4. How were phonetic sounds represented in language?
(a) By characters.
(b) By codes.
(c) By images.
(d) By numbers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?

2. The telegraph invented by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail was based on what function?

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

4. Who first defined the concept of "bandwith"?

5. What was the Morse code comprised of?

(see the answer key)

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