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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) 2000.
(b) 2005.
(c) 1999.
(d) 1992.

2. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) The popular novels of Ancient Greece.
(b) The fact that in the earliest days of the written word, there were no spaces between words.
(c) The long scrolls common in ancient Egypt.
(d) The serials people loved to read in Ancient Rome.

3. What does Carr say was a feature of early writing that is hard for us to imagine today?
(a) There was only blue and red ink in use.
(b) The ancient writers only used two vowels.
(c) There was no capitalization.
(d) There were no spaces separating the words.

4. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?
(a) Nicholas Carr.
(b) Steve Jobs.
(c) Bill Richardson.
(d) John Kemeny.

5. Which media mogul at RCA and NBC dismissed criticism of the mass media on which his career was built in the year 1955?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Walter Winchell.
(c) Les Moonves.
(d) David Sarnoff.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many categories does Carr claim our technologies can be divided into in Chapter Three?

3. In Chapter Three, which of the following does Carr say is often not recognized by a technology's inventor?

4. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?

5. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?

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