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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 89 - 132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hebb's rule say?
(a) Brain cells that do not ever change are called static.
(b) Brain cells that fire together wire together.
(c) Brain cells that can shift their function from one thing to another are called transformers.
(d) Brain cells that regenerate after injury are called super brain cells.

2. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?
(a) It is more accessible.
(b) It is democratic.
(c) It is bidirectional.
(d) It is cheap.

3. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?
(a) TV shows and movies.
(b) Records and audiobooks.
(c) CDs and DVDs.
(d) TV Shows and radio.

4. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1985.
(d) 2007.

5. What famous work of Saint Augustine's does Carr reference in Chapter Four?
(a) Confessions.
(b) Phaedrus.
(c) The DaVinci Code.
(d) Illuminati.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?

2. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?

3. How many categories does Carr claim our technologies can be divided into in Chapter Three?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

5. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

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