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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 and Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can memes be altered?
(a) Through mutation.
(b) After a serious illness.
(c) Through manipulation.
(d) Through mutation and manipulation.

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

3. What word book by Robert Cawdrey was published first in 1604?
(a) The English Language.
(b) The Written Word.
(c) Oxford English Dictionary.
(d) A Table Alphabeticall.

4. What were the two essential elements of Shannon's simple communication model?
(a) Circuit and grid.
(b) A transmitter and a receiver.
(c) Grid and network.
(d) Two relay switches.

5. What is the Internet without indexing?
(a) A jumble.
(b) Unsearchable.
(c) Unusable.
(d) Very cumbersome.

Short Answer Questions

1. What library once helped writing from all over the known world?

2. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?

3. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?

4. What development was the last stage of writing?

5. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?

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