The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood Quiz | Eight Week Quiz G

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 106 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What time of memory is most limited?
(a) Repressed memory.
(b) Childhood memory.
(c) Short term memory.
(d) Long term memory.

2. What has the Internet changed about the storing of information?
(a) Efficiency.
(b) Structure.
(c) Computer literacy.
(d) Organization.

3. What problem is presented by today's information?
(a) Deciding what to keep and what to delete.
(b) Determining what's really important.
(c) Keeping up with all of it.
(d) It bogs down the operation of computers.

4. What is the most probable state for an arrangement of molecules in a system?
(a) Constantly and randomly movement.
(b) In an arc.
(c) In a jumble.
(d) In an organized line.

5. What can a computable number be compressed into?
(a) A byte.
(b) 0s and 1s.
(c) A standard calculation.
(d) An algorithm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?

2. in what year did John Carrington, an English missionary, publish "The Talking Drums of Africa"?

3. What society created the first numeric tables?

4. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?

5. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?

(see the answer key)

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