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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 television.
(b) The Enigma machine.
(c) The short-wave radio.
(d) The Audion.

2. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?
(a) They were only used by the poorest people.
(b) They were expensive.
(c) They were fragile.
(d) There was never enough ink to use on the scrolls.

3. Which college did Joseph Weizenbaum work at in the 1960s?
(a) Stanford.
(b) Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
(c) University of Michigan.
(d) Dartmouth.

4. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
(a) Has a neutral effect on it.
(b) Eclipses it.
(c) Heightens it.
(d) Diminishes it.

5. Which Israeli company collected data in 2008 on the behavior of a million visitors to sites maintained by its clients around the world?
(a) ClickTale.
(b) DataWorld.
(c) ClickFortress.
(d) WorkRelate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?

2. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?

3. What does Carr say about the state of electronic books in Chapter Six?

4. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?

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