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All rights reserved.\n\u000f\nMultiple-choice Questions\nFor each of the following questions, choose the letter of the one best response.\nChapter 1\nThe two principal catalysts for the Information Age have been\nbooks and pamphlets.\ncomputers and communication networks.\nmovie theaters and public parks.\nnewspapers and magazines.\nradio and television.\nWhich statement best supports the conclusion that society can control whether to adopt a new technology?\nNo new nuclear power plants were built in the United States for 25 years after the accident at Three Mile Island.\nAbout half of all email messages are spam.\nDespite decades of research, fusion power is an elusive goal.\nPeople do not have to listen to Rush Limbaugh if they do not want to.\nSome new technologies are simply too expensive to even consider adopting.\nTablets, abacuses, and manual tables\nare no longer used, because of the proliferation of calculators and computers.\nare examples of aids to manual calculating.\nwere developed in Western Europe in the late Middle Ages.\nreplaced Hindu-Arabic numerals as the preferred way to do calculations.\nAll of the above.\nThe mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because\nthey were too expensive.\nthere were unreliable.\nthey were too difficult to program.\nthey could not handle fractions.\nbookkeepers successfully lobbied the King, and he made the machines illegal.\nThe calculating machine of Georg and Edvard Sheutz\ncomputed the values of polynomial functions.\ntypeset the results of its computations.\nperformed calculations faster than they could be done manually.\nperformed calculations more reliably than they could be done manually.\nAll of the above.\nWhich of the following phrases does not describe the Gilded Age in America?\nrapid industrialization\neconomic expansion\nwidespread electrification\nconcentration of corporate power\ncorporate mergers\nWhich of the following was not a result of the adoption of mechanical calculators?\nLess demand for “superstars” who could rapidly compute sums by hand\nHigher productivity of bookkeepers\nHigher salaries of bookkeepers\nProliferation of companies making calculators\nFeminization of bookkeeping\nWhich of the following was not a feature of cash registers in the early 1900s?\nAbility to compute total of purchases\nAbility to print itemized receipts for customers\nAbility to print log of transactions for owners\nAbility to compute amount of change to give customer\nAbility to ring a bell every time cash drawer is opened\nPunched card tabulation was invented by Herman Hollerith, an employee of\nthe Pennsylvania Railroad.\nthe Census Bureau.\nthe Pennsylvania Steel Company.\nthe Burroughs Adding Machine Company.\nIBM.\nWhich of the following phrases best describes a system that inputs data, performs one or more calculations, and produces output data?\nmanual calculator\ndigital computer\ndata-processing system\ndifference engine\ncash register\nThe first commercial electronic digital computers were produced just after\nthe Spanish-American War.\nWorld War I.\nWorld War II.\nthe Korean War.\nthe Vietnam War.\nProgramming languages were developed in order to\nmake it possible to program computers in English.\nmake programming faster and less error-prone.\nspeed translations between English and Russian during the Cold War.\nimprove the computation speed of computers, which were very expensive.\nAll of the above.\nWhich of the following was not an early programming language?\nBASIC\nCOBOL\nDATA-FLOW\nFLOW-MATIC\nFORTRAN\nSoftware that allows multiple users to edit and run their programs simultaneously on the same computer is called\na data-processing system.\nan intranet.\na microprocessor.\na programming language.\na time-sharing system..\nA semiconductor device containing transistors, capacitors, and resistors is called\na computer.\na diode.\nan integrated circuit.\na radio.\na transformer.\nWhich Cold War program played an important role in advancing integ","cbCaidjEOR1rWQkC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidjEOR1rWQkC","docx",236410,43,"English","# Multiple-choice Questions\n## Chapter 1","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of this document?\",\"answer\":\"It provides multiple-choice questions intended for assessment or practice based on computing and information-technology concepts.\"},{\"question\":\"What topics does Chapter 1 include?\",\"answer\":\"Chapter 1 covers technology adoption reasoning, historical computing tools and their limitations, early cash registers, and core ideas like data-processing systems and electronic computers.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the test bank focus only on hardware history?\",\"answer\":\"No. It also addresses software and programming topics, including early programming languages, time-sharing, and company roles in operating systems and computer technologies.\"}]","Test Bank - Michael J. 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