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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. What skill was Plato best known for?
(a) Oration.
(b) Editing.
(c) Debating.
(d) Writing.

2. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?
(a) The modem.
(b) The circuit board.
(c) The software language Python.
(d) The so-called Turning Machine, which is the forerunner to the modern computer.

3. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
(a) Smartphone use and computer use.
(b) TV viewing and Smartphone use.
(c) Web surfing and eating.
(d) TV viewing and Web surfing.

4. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
(a) Shape the business models of technology.
(b) Shape the process of thought.
(c) Help people learn how to grow gardens.
(d) Help people learn to read more quickly.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Lee de Forest invent?

2. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?

3. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

4. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?

5. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

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