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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?
(a) 1992.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1999.
(d) 2005.

2. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Mainz.

3. Who did Gutenberg secure funding for his printing press from?
(a) His father, Josiah Gutenberg.
(b) A neighbor, Johann Fust.
(c) His Uncle, Rhine Gutenberg.
(d) His best friend, Sebastian Bach.

4. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?
(a) Fred Armisen.
(b) James Murphy.
(c) John Sonyar.
(d) Joe O'Shea.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?

2. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?

3. What does the researcher Nicole Speer say about the act of deep reading?

4. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

5. What skill was Socrates most well-known for?

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