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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. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?
(a) Through experiments researches tracked on ultrasound machines.
(b) Through experiments about the movement of the right arm.
(c) Through experiments that studied the brain's reaction to injuries.
(d) Through experiments about language.

2. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?
(a) Ingenuity.
(b) Progress.
(c) Foresight.
(d) Human will.

3. What book of Steven Johnson's does Carr cite in Chapter Seven?
(a) Computers Galore.
(b) Everything Bad is Good For You.
(c) The Computational World and the Brain.
(d) The Age of Internet Addiction.

4. What does Hebb's rule say?
(a) Brain cells that regenerate after injury are called super brain cells.
(b) Brain cells that can shift their function from one thing to another are called transformers.
(c) Brain cells that do not ever change are called static.
(d) Brain cells that fire together wire together.

5. What did Lee de Forest invent?
(a) The short-wave radio.
(b) The Enigma machine.
(c) The television.
(d) The Audion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, Carr says that if working memory is the mind's scratch pad, then long-term memory is which of the following?

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

3. In Chapter Five, which publication does Carr cite as once being known for publishing long-form pieces by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson?

4. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?

5. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite Alphonse de Lamartine as predicting in 1831?

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