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

2. In which year was Carr born?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1959.
(d) 1936.

3. What does Hebb's rule say?
(a) Brain cells that can shift their function from one thing to another are called transformers.
(b) Brain cells that regenerate after injury are called super brain cells.
(c) Brain cells that do not ever change are called static.
(d) Brain cells that fire together wire together.

4. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
(a) Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen.
(b) Johannes Burler.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) John Michael Gutenberg.

5. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?
(a) Through assessing a person's emotional intelligence.
(b) Through how quickly people can do multiplication tables.
(c) Through how many languages people speak.
(d) Through the way people draw pictures or maps of their surroundings.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?

3. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

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

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

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