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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 1993 book of Neil Postman's does Carr reference in Chapter Eight?
(a) The Dark Room.
(b) Googleplex.
(c) Technopoly.
(d) Coding Phrases.

2. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
(a) A hindrance in human survival rates.
(b) A strange anomaly.
(c) A natural step in human history.
(d) A progressive lead forward.

3. What did the researcher Eric Kandel demonstrate in the early 1970s through is research?
(a) Reading a book on paper is better than reading it online from a memory retention point of view.
(b) Synapses change with experience.
(c) Writing in longhand helps people remember the content better than typing it does.
(d) Hearing some information as well as writing it reinforces memory in children.

4. In Chapter Five, Carr quotes McLuhan as saying a new medium is never which of the following?
(a) Cheap.
(b) An addition to an old one.
(c) A sign of progress.
(d) A sign of regression.

5. What does Carr write that computer memory exists as?
(a) Different software languages.
(b) Simple binary bits of ones and zeros.
(c) Simple numbers from 0 - 100.
(d) Simple colors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the first civilizations in Mesopotamia use to write on?

2. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?

3. What line did Walt Whitman write in one of the opening verses of Leaves of Grass?

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

5. Which inventor and futurist wrote a 1996 essay on the legacy of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

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