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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. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?
(a) Florida State University.
(b) Dartmouth University.
(c) Penn State University.
(d) Harvard University.

2. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?
(a) Louisiana.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Alabama.

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

4. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?
(a) J.Z. Young.
(b) Jessica Joyner.
(c) Michael Moskovitz.
(d) Marion Crace.

5. What did Lee de Forest invent?
(a) The television.
(b) The short-wave radio.
(c) The Audion.
(d) The Enigma machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of type did Johannes Gutenberg invent with the printing press?

2. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?

3. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?

4. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?

5. Which media mogul at RCA and NBC dismissed criticism of the mass media on which his career was built in the year 1955?

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