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Quiz 1

Regarding Reading 1.

1. When communicating with a flashlight, why isn't it practical to just 'write' the letters in the air or use a sequential series of blinks (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc) ? (I'm looking for two specific words.)
2. Explain how speech itself (the English vocabulary) is a code (what do words represent?).
3. What makes certain codes "useful?" (I'm looking for a specific quote from the text.)
4. How is Morse code itself a 'meta' code?
5. The book says that Braille is binary. Do you agree? Explain why or why not.