Communication History 5

If you spent time before class talking to a friend, texted a friend last night after you finished your homework, emailed your sister in another city, snap chatted with your best friend, and by reading this question on Quizizz, you are doing this.

• transportating
• speaking
• communicating
• dreaming

What should you do if you have an important idea?

• keep it to yourself
• share it with a friend
• write it down
• share it with a local newspaper

How does technology affect the way people communicate?

• it allows people to communicate with others quickly and at a low cost
• it makes people less motivated to communicate with others
• it does not affect the ways people communicate
• it makes it difficult to maintain privacy when communicating with others

Guglielmo Marconi was only 21 years old when he increased the distance that radio signals could be sent without wires.

• True
• False

"Watson, come over here - I need you." were the first words spoken over a telephone.  Who said these words when he invented the first phone?

• Guglielmo Marconi
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Christopher Sholes
• Samuel Morse

Of the four inventions listed, why are the telegraph and typewriter no longer things that people use?

• they were both expensive and dangerous to use
• the only people who knew how they worked died a long time ago
• other inventions such as the telephone and computers have made it useless
• they both required several people to operate 

Christopher Sholes invented the ___________ in 1868 and changed the way people communicate.

• telephone
• telegraph
• typewriter
• computer

The “e” in “email” stands for what?

• express
• electronic
• easy
• eager

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The simplest way to communicate is to 

• send an e-mail
• text someone
• open your mouth
• snap chat

Which of these is not a way of communicating?

• internet
• driving your car
• watching the news
• writing a letter

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