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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. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?
(a) An early Apple Smartphone.
(b) One of Apple's earliest Macintoshes.
(c) One of Toshibia's early laptops.
(d) One of IBM's earliest desktops.

2. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1940.

3. How many categories does Carr claim our technologies can be divided into in Chapter Three?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 7.

4. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
(a) Johannes Burler.
(b) James Joyce.
(c) John Michael Gutenberg.
(d) Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen.

5. Who is Amazon's chief executive, mentioned by Carr in Chapter Six?
(a) Steve Jobs.
(b) Sergey Brin.
(c) Larry Page.
(d) Jeff Bezos.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

3. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?

4. What does Carr say was a feature of early writing that is hard for us to imagine today?

5. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?

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