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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Shannon call the units of information that he was able to measure in a message?
(a) Data.
(b) Microns.
(c) Bits.
(d) Bytes.

2. How does heat travel?
(a) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a cold thing.
(b) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a hotter thing.
(c) Heat can travel from a hot thing to a warm thing.
(d) Heat can travel from a cold thing to a hot thing.

3. What are genes?
(a) Memory cells.
(b) Bits of information.
(c) RNA.
(d) Part of DNA.

4. 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.

5. What did cosmologist George Gamow immediately recognize about DNA as a code and proposed that it could be deciphered mathematically?
(a) It was a code and it could be deciphered mathematically.
(b) It was a code and it could be cloned.
(c) It was dynamic and ever-changing.
(d) It was a code and it could be developed to duplicate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a bit?

2. In what field was Charles Babbage an early pioneer?

3. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?

4. The invention of what technology would make Shannon's theory of a computing machine practical?

5. What results when a closed system's temperature evens out?

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