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

2. What does psychologist Sheila Crowell say the very act of remembering may do to a human brain?
(a) Strengthen its visual cortex.
(b) Change it so that it is easier to tell stories later on.
(c) Change it in a way that can make it easier to learn ideas and skills later.
(d) Strengthen its audio processing areas.

3. What did the Flynn effect refer to?
(a) The steady decrease in IQ scores around the globe throughout the twentieth century.
(b) The steady decline in technological skills in the developed world during the 1990s.
(c) The steady increase in IQ scores around the globe throughout the twentieth century.
(d) The steady rise in technological skills in the developed world during the 1990s.

4. According to Carr in Chapter Four, what kind of reading was largely unknown in the ancient world?
(a) Skimming.
(b) Silent reading.
(c) Deep reading.
(d) Group reading.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the mathematician Larry Page asked to work with him on the first iteration of Google's search function?

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

4. Which recommendation of Erasmus's did people enthusiastically follow in his day?

5. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?

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