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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
(a) Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen.
(b) Johannes Burler.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) John Michael Gutenberg.

2. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?
(a) The ability to project one's voice in a debating hall.
(b) The ability to read very quickly.
(c) The ability to write neatly.
(d) Silent, solitary reading.

3. In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?
(a) 2005.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1992.

4. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?
(a) Tools of technology have their own paths and need to be tightly controlled.
(b) Tools of technology will be the end of humanity.
(c) Tools of technology are only for the wealthy.
(d) Tools of technology are neutral in themselves and have no ends of their own.

5. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?
(a) Stephen Daedalus.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Erasmus.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?

2. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

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

4. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?

2. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?

3. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?

4. In Chapter One, how does Joe O'Shea feel about his decision to stop reading books in favor of the shorter-form content of the Internet?

5. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?

6. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?

7. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?

8. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say research suggests about the relationship between the time people spend on the Net and the time they spend watching television?

9. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?

10. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?

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