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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 176).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Doing a crossword puzzle.
(c) Eating.
(d) Running.

2. In Chapter Five, Carr quotes McLuhan as saying a new medium is never which of the following?
(a) A sign of regression.
(b) Cheap.
(c) An addition to an old one.
(d) A sign of progress.

3. What was Google's ambitious social networking site that launched at the end of 2009?
(a) Google Surf.
(b) Google Net.
(c) Google Plus.
(d) Google Wave.

4. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?
(a) Have several social media platform conversations happening at the same time while also talking on the phone.
(b) Have several e-books open at the same time to read.
(c) Have a landline phone and social media conversation happening at the same time as one writes a blog.
(d) Have several windows and applications open at the same time.

5. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
(a) Survival of the busiest.
(b) Survival of the fittest.
(c) Survival of the fastest.
(d) Survival of the most connected.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

2. What did the first researcher to show how people's brains change in response to Internet activity use to scan the brains of his subjects?

3. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?

4. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?

5. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?

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