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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 famous work of Saint Augustine's does Carr reference in Chapter Four?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) Illuminati.
(c) Confessions.
(d) The DaVinci Code.

2. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Eating.
(c) Running.
(d) Doing a crossword puzzle.

3. What did Page and Brin formally announce in 2004 in relation to books?
(a) The Papyrus Project.
(b) The Google Print program.
(c) The Scribe Project.
(d) The Lexicon Project.

4. Who was the mathematician Larry Page asked to work with him on the first iteration of Google's search function?
(a) Eric Schmidt.
(b) Sergey Brin.
(c) Bill Gates.
(d) Larson Nowel.

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. Who is the managing director of Guardian News and Media that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?

2. Which inventor and futurist wrote a 1996 essay on the legacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

3. Which Israeli company collected data in 2008 on the behavior of a million visitors to sites maintained by its clients around the world?

4. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?

5. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr cite the Roman philosopher Seneca as having said 2,000 years ago?

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