1. In Chapter Five, which newspaper does Carr cite as ceasing its print edition in 2009?
(a) The Washington Post.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Wall Street Journal.
(d) The Christian Science Monitor.

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

3. What is one of the newest branches of the New York Public Library, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
(a) The Bryant Park Library Center.
(b) The Fifth Street Library Center.
(c) The Bronx Library Center.
(d) The Queens Library Center.

4. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?
(a) Helped people stop missing appointments.
(b) Helped people maximize their productivity in terms of farming and harvesting food.
(c) Helped people keep Seasonal Affective Disorder in check.
(d) Helped move societies from agrarian ones to more urban, higher-tech ones.

5. How long did Eric Schmidt tell The Wall Street Journal in 2005 that it would take Google to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 1000 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 300 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who carried a stopwatch into the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s and came up with a new system of maximizing workers' efficiency?

2. In which year was Carr born?

3. What does Carr write that computer memory exists as?

4. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?

5. What is the title of Eric Kandel's 2006 memoir?

(see the answer key)

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