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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. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr cite the Roman philosopher Seneca as having said 2,000 years ago?
(a) You can be a jack of all trades, but a master of none.
(b) To run is but to hide for a short time.
(c) To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
(d) Sorry is the scribe who splits his time between two scrolls.

2. What did the first civilizations in Mesopotamia use to write on?
(a) Stone.
(b) Clay.
(c) Paper.
(d) Wax.

3. Which Israeli company collected data in 2008 on the behavior of a million visitors to sites maintained by its clients around the world?
(a) WorkRelate.
(b) ClickFortress.
(c) DataWorld.
(d) ClickTale.

4. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?
(a) We are contributing to Google's advertising revenue.
(b) We are given small electric shocks.
(c) We are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies."
(d) We are re-writing our neural pathways in our brains.

5. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?
(a) Apple's iPad.
(b) Amazon's Kindle.
(c) Samsung's tablet.
(d) Toshiba's tablet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr argue the Net commands with a far greater insistency than television or radio?

2. What is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?

3. What do determinists believe, according to Carr?

4. What did the Flynn effect refer to?

5. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?

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