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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. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
(a) A cyber-optic cable connector.
(b) An external hard drive.
(c) A Hypercard.
(d) A modem.

2. What does Carr say was a feature of early writing that is hard for us to imagine today?
(a) There was no capitalization.
(b) There were no spaces separating the words.
(c) There was only blue and red ink in use.
(d) The ancient writers only used two vowels.

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

4. According to Carr in Chapter Four, what kind of reading was largely unknown in the ancient world?
(a) Deep reading.
(b) Group reading.
(c) Skimming.
(d) Silent reading.

5. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?
(a) He said it changed things all over the world so much that no empire or sect or star had as great an effect worldwide.
(b) He said it made everyone, everywhere, better educated.
(c) He said it made societies much more equal.
(d) He said it made books much less expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?

2. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?

3. Which neuroscientist carried out ground-breaking experiments in the late 1960s that pioneered the ideas of neuroplasticity?

4. What did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?

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

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