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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What results when a closed system's temperature evens out?
(a) More work can be accomplished.
(b) The system fails.
(c) No work could be done.
(d) There is no change.

2. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.
(a) He implemented exceptions into the system.
(b) He ignored them since they were infrequent.
(c) Russell altered the Principia Mathematica to adjust for conflicting results.
(d) He made them against the rules.

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

4. Why is the belief in God an enduring one?
(a) The memes retain beliefs.
(b) Beliefs are the only concepts that are passed on.
(c) Belief of God has been with mankind since the beginning.
(d) The belief is inherited.

5. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?
(a) 1845
(b) 1972
(c) 1949
(d) 1902

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were there so many message errors with the early telegraph?

2. Why wasn't Shannon able to teach his computer to play a game?

3. What did a young mathematician named Kurt Gödel conclude about conflicting statements?

4. What does a closed system made up of a hot part and a cold part attain as the heat passes from the hot part to the cold part?

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

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