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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 does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?
(a) The brain becomes less able to change as quickly as people age.
(b) The brain requires surgery to be able to change as people age.
(c) The brain needs medication to be able to change as people age.
(d) The brain becomes more able to change as people age.

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

3. 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 books much less expensive.
(d) He said it made societies much more equal.

4. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?
(a) They were fragile.
(b) They were only used by the poorest people.
(c) There was never enough ink to use on the scrolls.
(d) They were expensive.

5. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?
(a) The strength of a code.
(b) Signal strength of transistors.
(c) A machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior that is equal to, or even indistinguishable from, a human's.
(d) The bandwith of fiber optic cables.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?

2. Who were the first people to start manufacturing scrolls of papyrus?

3. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?

4. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

5. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?

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