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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 89 - 132).
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say the Net delivers to users on a daily basis through its high-speed system?
(a) Positive reinforcements.
(b) More information that anyone could retain.
(c) Rewards that our brain treats the same way as it treats sugar.
(d) Negative feelings in the form of jealousy at seeing other people's social media pictures.
2. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?
(a) The Colorado Clarion.
(b) The Rocky Mountain News.
(c) The Colorado Caller.
(d) The Colorado Record.
3. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?
(a) He said it made books much less expensive.
(b) He said it changed things all over the world so much that no empire or sect or star had as great an effect worldwide.
(c) He said it made everyone, everywhere, better educated.
(d) He said it made societies much more equal.
4. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest paradox of using the Internet?
(a) We think the Net is cheap, but it is actually expensive.
(b) We think the Net is educating us, but it is actually making it harder for us to concentrate.
(c) We think we are in control of the Net, but it is actually controlling us.
(d) The Net grabs our attention only to scatter it.
5. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?
(a) We are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies."
(b) We are contributing to Google's advertising revenue.
(c) We are re-writing our neural pathways in our brains.
(d) We are given small electric shocks.
Short Answer Questions
1. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say Theuth thought about the art of writing?
3. What else besides repeated physical actions can rewire the human brain?
4. What do determinists believe, according to Carr?
5. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
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