SECTION 1:
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Write only ONE correct letter: A, B, C, or D for each of the following
multiple choice questions:
[26 marks]
1) What is a concordance?
A. A programme that stores digital text.
B. An index of all the main words in a book, along with their immediate contexts.
C. A plagiarism detection programme.
D. Astandard encoding scheme for humanities electronics arts.
2) What was the significance of Robert Busa’s trip to the IBM’s Literary Data Processing
Centre in 1949?
A. It was there that he began working on a collection of pre-1642 editions of William
Shakespeare’s plays.
B. It was there that he met Thomas Watson’s sister who would later become his wife.
C. It was there that the seeds for creating the Internet and Web Browsing were planted.
D. It was there that the texts of St Thomas Aquinas were transferred to punch cards and
an index was created.
3) In the 1960’s, what deterred many people from doing computer-based work?
A. Travelling to computer centres took time and money.
B. Computer viruses were rampant and no programmes existed to fix such problems.
C. Data still had to be entered by hand, on punch cards or paper tape.
D. People were not interested in computers.
4) During the 1970’s — mid-1980’s, how did digital humanities evolve?
A. Mapping the correspondences and networks among scientific academies took place.
B. Many people had started using computers in their daily lives, and began to consider
what benefits they could offer.
C. Animated poetry (Kinetic poetry) was created and used widely among poets in the
United States and Europe.
D. Group collaborative projects among universities began to be formed.
5) During the early 1990s until today, how did digital humanities evolve?
A. A significant amount of digital text and image archives emerged at digital humanities
centres around the world.
B. The organisation, South African Humanities Association, was created.
C. The first internet browser became available in 2000, and this had a great impact on
digital humanities.
D. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) was launched. Its purpose was to create a standard
encoding scheme for humanities electronics arts.