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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 177 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?
(a) Tools of technology will be the end of humanity.
(b) Tools of technology are only for the wealthy.
(c) Tools of technology have their own paths and need to be tightly controlled.
(d) Tools of technology are neutral in themselves and have no ends of their own.

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

3. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say Theuth thought about the art of writing?
(a) He thought it would make Egyptians wiser and improve their memories.
(b) He thought it would lead people to more secular lives.
(c) He thought it would lead to unrest among the farmers.
(d) He thought it would lead to uprisings against the ruling classes.

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

5. Ari Sculman wrote that the brain's connections do not merely provide access to a memory, but they also do which of the following?
(a) They help a person tell stories about the memory.
(b) They help a person figure out how they feel, emotionally, about a memory.
(c) They constitute memories themselves.
(d) They help a person form new memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book did Weizenbaum write in which he addressed his own concerns about how people received his computer program from the 1960s?

2. In Chapter Four, who does Carr claim were the first people to use a specialized medium for writing?

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

4. What did Aristotle think the primary function of the human brain was?

5. What skill was Plato best known for?

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