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

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?
(a) The length of the candles.
(b) The storytelling skills of its elders.
(c) The ability of its teachers to impart debating skills.
(d) The capacity of human memory.

3. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?
(a) Helped people stop missing appointments.
(b) Helped move societies from agrarian ones to more urban, higher-tech ones.
(c) Helped people keep Seasonal Affective Disorder in check.
(d) Helped people maximize their productivity in terms of farming and harvesting food.

4. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.
(b) Slaves read to them.
(c) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.
(d) They always had their children read to them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?

2. What skill was Plato best known for?

3. What does the researcher Nicole Speer say about the act of deep reading?

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

5. What does Hebb's rule say?

(see the answer key)

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