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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What theory was not only useful in practical communications, but had applications in psychology, biology, and physics?
(a) The Quantum theory.
(b) The theory of relativity.
(c) The information theory.
(d) The M-Theory.

2. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Plato.
(d) Euripedes.

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

4. How many years ago was the first language established?
(a) Between 4,500 and 8,000 years ago.
(b) 50,000 years ago.
(c) Between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago.
(d) 100,000 years ago.

5. What was the main form of communication in the late 1940s?
(a) Letters.
(b) Special couriers.
(c) The telegraph.
(d) The telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

2. What is a bit?

3. What did Alan Turing reduce human thought to?

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

5. Shannon proposed a solution for overcoming extra noise in his communication model that mimicked what early communicators?

Short Essay Questions

1. By the 1930s the telephone had replace the telegraph as the most advanced means of communication. What advantages did the telephone have over the telegraph?

2. Who invented the telegraph and what is its fundamental functionality?

3. While Shannon worked on secret cryptography projects for the US government during World War II, what theory about information did he conceive?

4. What was the purpose behind the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary?

5. Who first conceived the idea of a machine that could think and under what circumstances?

6. Who was Claude Shannon?

7. What was the purpose of Cawdrey's wordbook, "A Table Alphabeticall?"

8. How was the "telephone number" born?

9. What technological breakthrough resulted from Claude Shannon's theories and work?

10. What advanced form of communication was beginning to emerge in the 1840s?

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