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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?
(a) Normality.
(b) Possibility.
(c) Sequencing.
(d) Probability.

2. What culture grouped characters in categories such as tools, weapons, plants, animals, and buildings?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Egyptians.
(d) The Inca Culture.

3. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?
(a) It was very well received in the mathematics community.
(b) It failed to receive governmental backing.
(c) It received government backing but was not considered practical.
(d) It was very well received in academia.

4. Erwin Schrodinger used the concept of entropy to describe what group?
(a) Plant life.
(b) Allergins.
(c) Microbes.
(d) Living organisms.

5. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?
(a) That it traveled in many directions.
(b) That it traveled in one direction.
(c) That it traveled in random directions with no pattern.
(d) That it was dynamic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Gleick presents his intention to trace the growth of both the concept of information and information itself by identifying what key elements?

2. What process can measure the limits of the human mind?

3. Shannon showed that it was theoretically possible to overcome any amount of signal noise by what action?

4. All known alphabets are based on the original alphabet that emerged about 1500 B.C. in what area?

5. What society created the first numeric tables?

(see the answer key)

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