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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. What does Carr say, in Chapter Eight, that Larry Page has always viewed Google as an embryonic form of?
(a) Academic research.
(b) Artificial Intelligence.
(c) Content creation.
(d) Space exploration.

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

3. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say Theuth thought about the art of writing?
(a) He thought it would lead to unrest among the farmers.
(b) He thought it would lead people to more secular lives.
(c) He thought it would make Egyptians wiser and improve their memories.
(d) He thought it would lead to uprisings against the ruling classes.

4. What was an early version of Google called in 1996?
(a) BackRub.
(b) SearchMe!
(c) ModernWorld.
(d) FindOut.

5. What does Carr say that the Net is by design in Chapter Seven?
(a) A purveyor of fine goods.
(b) An educational tool.
(c) An interruption system.
(d) An ad revenue tool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?

2. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue that hyperlinks do in a text?

3. What did Lee de Forest invent?

4. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?

5. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

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