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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. Which writer does Carr identify in Chapter Eight as sounding the keynote for our modern approach to managing information?
(a) Vannevar Bush.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Noam Chomsky.
(d) Marshall Lewis.

2. What book of Steven Johnson's does Carr cite in Chapter Seven?
(a) The Age of Internet Addiction.
(b) Computers Galore.
(c) Everything Bad is Good For You.
(d) The Computational World and the Brain.

3. In Chapter Eight, what concern does Carr cite critics as having voiced about Google's commercial control over the distribution of digitized books?
(a) A restriction in the flow of knowledge.
(b) That rural areas with poor Internet access would suffer.
(c) That eventually only the wealthy would be able to access digital books.
(d) Too much overload on Google's servers.

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

5. Which former editor of the New York Times Book Review has become a Kindle enthusiast, according to Carr in Chapter Six?
(a) Charles McGrath.
(b) Alice McGrath.
(c) Paul McGrath.
(d) Mary McGrath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?

2. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?

3. What was Google's ambitious social networking site that launched at the end of 2009?

4. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

5. Who is the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?

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