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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 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1984.
(d) 1964.

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

3. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
(a) Survival of the fastest.
(b) Survival of the busiest.
(c) Survival of the fittest.
(d) Survival of the most connected.

4. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
(a) A Hypercard.
(b) A modem.
(c) A cyber-optic cable connector.
(d) An external hard drive.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carr say he finds himself trapped in by the mid-1990s relating to computer equipment purchasing?

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

3. How did the rise of silent reading change the architecture of libraries, according to Carr?

4. When was the Apple Computer company incorporated?

5. Who did Gutenberg secure funding for his printing press from?

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