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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 177 - 224).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?
(a) Dartmouth University.
(b) Penn State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Florida State University.
2. According to Carr in Chapter Seven, which of the following forms the major bottleneck in our brains?
(a) The passage from working memory to long-term memory.
(b) The processing of visual information, especially bright colors.
(c) The process of learning new musical sounds.
(d) The encoding of new words we have learned.
3. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?
(a) The software language Python.
(b) The circuit board.
(c) The modem.
(d) The so-called Turning Machine, which is the forerunner to the modern computer.
4. What role do researchers think the hippocampus plays in human memory processing?
(a) It may store short-term memories and help transfer and process those memories into a different part of the brain, where they become long-term memories.
(b) It helps encode the colors in memories.
(c) It may process the emotions a certain memory entails.
(d) It may protect a person's trauma centers from particularly terrible memories.
5. Who was the Greek mother of the Muses?
(a) Mnemonsyne.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Athena.
Short Answer Questions
1. What line did Walt Whitman write in one of the opening verses of Leaves of Grass?
2. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
3. When did Nathaniel Hawthorne write about the advantages of people spending time in nature?
4. Who carried a stopwatch into the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s and came up with a new system of maximizing workers' efficiency?
5. What did the first civilizations in Mesopotamia use to write on?
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