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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 44).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $500.

2. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
(a) 2007.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1985.

3. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
(a) Help people learn how to grow gardens.
(b) Shape the business models of technology.
(c) Help people learn to read more quickly.
(d) Shape the process of thought.

4. What does Carr say he finds himself trapped in by the mid-1990s relating to computer equipment purchasing?
(a) A cycle of debt.
(b) An upgrade cycle.
(c) A frustrating cycle of devices breaking and Carr needing to spent a lot of money to replace them.
(d) A process of trying to keep up with friends by purchasing the latest equipment.

5. Which famous philosopher from the 1800s wrote an appreciative small piece about his love for the typewriter?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) William Shakespeare.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

Short Answer Questions

1. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?

2. What did Aristotle think the primary function of the human brain was?

3. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?

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

5. In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?

(see the answer key)

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