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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the computer from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(a) Winifred.
(b) HAL.
(c) Wemberly.
(d) Dave.

2. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) The popular novels of Ancient Greece.
(b) The serials people loved to read in Ancient Rome.
(c) The long scrolls common in ancient Egypt.
(d) The fact that in the earliest days of the written word, there were no spaces between words.

3. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?
(a) Daedulus.
(b) Circe.
(c) Phaedrus.
(d) The Iliad.

4. What do determinists believe, according to Carr?
(a) Tools of technology are powerful forces that can reshape history and have an enormous influence on the path of societies.
(b) Tools of technology are signs of human progress.
(c) Tools of technology are signs of human regression.
(d) Tools of technology are only for the wealthy.

5. In Chapter Three, which of the following does Carr say is often not recognized by a technology's inventor?
(a) Its benefits.
(b) Its cost.
(c) Its intellectual ethic.
(d) Its longevity.

6. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
(a) A cyber-optic cable connector.
(b) An external hard drive.
(c) A Hypercard.
(d) A modem.

7. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
(a) A natural step in human history.
(b) A strange anomaly.
(c) A progressive lead forward.
(d) A hindrance in human survival rates.

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

9. What did Lee de Forest invent?
(a) The television.
(b) The short-wave radio.
(c) The Enigma machine.
(d) The Audion.

10. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?
(a) He was a lawyer.
(b) He was a goldsmith.
(c) He was an accountant.
(d) He was a doctor.

11. How does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?
(a) The brain needs medication to be able to change as people age.
(b) The brain becomes less able to change as quickly as people age.
(c) The brain requires surgery to be able to change as people age.
(d) The brain becomes more able to change as people age.

12. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?
(a) He becomes a software engineer.
(b) He becomes a blogger.
(c) He becomes a user-interface professional for Apple.
(d) He becomes a marketing chief for Google.

13. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?
(a) Helped people maximize their productivity in terms of farming and harvesting food.
(b) Helped people keep Seasonal Affective Disorder in check.
(c) Helped people stop missing appointments.
(d) Helped move societies from agrarian ones to more urban, higher-tech ones.

14. Which media mogul at RCA and NBC dismissed criticism of the mass media on which his career was built in the year 1955?
(a) David Sarnoff.
(b) Les Moonves.
(c) Walter Winchell.
(d) Walter White.

15. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) They always had their children read to them.
(b) Slaves read to them.
(c) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.
(d) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?

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

3. What famous work of Saint Augustine's does Carr reference in Chapter Four?

4. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?

5. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?

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