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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What were the interests of Charles Babbage, a brilliant Englishman who lived in the 19th century?
(a) Prose and poetry.
(b) Mathematics, engineering, cryptography, railroads, and industrial machinery.
(c) The history of discovery and travel.
(d) Philosophy and psychology.

3. What was the Morse code based on?
(a) Dots and dashes.
(b) The alphabet.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Symbols.

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

5. What did the written language provide that helped to progress the intellect of mankind?
(a) Records.
(b) Permanence.
(c) Books.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chaotic looking numbers may have simplistic algorithms but why are many difficult to determine?

2. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?

3. What was used in the earliest known method of writing language?

4. What was the goal of James Murray when he wrote the first Oxford English Dictionary in 1879?

5. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?

(see the answer key)

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