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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. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?
(a) Our savior.
(b) Our friend.
(c) Our master.
(d) Our confidant.

2. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?
(a) James Murphy.
(b) Joe O'Shea.
(c) John Sonyar.
(d) Fred Armisen.

3. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?
(a) Nicholas Carr.
(b) John Kemeny.
(c) Steve Jobs.
(d) Bill Richardson.

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

5. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?
(a) Progress.
(b) Ingenuity.
(c) Foresight.
(d) Human will.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?

2. How many categories does Carr claim our technologies can be divided into in Chapter Three?

3. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?

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

5. When was the Apple Computer company incorporated?

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