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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?
(a) Through experiments that studied the brain's reaction to injuries.
(b) Through experiments about language.
(c) Through experiments about the movement of the right arm.
(d) Through experiments researches tracked on ultrasound machines.

2. In Chapter Three, which of the following does Carr say is often not recognized by a technology's inventor?
(a) Its cost.
(b) Its benefits.
(c) Its longevity.
(d) Its intellectual ethic.

3. What skill was Plato best known for?
(a) Debating.
(b) Editing.
(c) Oration.
(d) Writing.

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

5. What did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?
(a) Readers became more receptive to having their children learn to read.
(b) Readers became more likely to want to attend the theater.
(c) Readers became more likely to also want to listen to music as they were reading.
(d) Readers became more efficient and more attentive.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?

2. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?

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

4. When was the Apple Computer company incorporated?

5. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?

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