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

2. Which media mogul at RCA and NBC dismissed criticism of the mass media on which his career was built in the year 1955?
(a) Walter White.
(b) Les Moonves.
(c) David Sarnoff.
(d) Walter Winchell.

3. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
(a) 2007.
(b) 1985.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1995.

4. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?
(a) He was a doctor.
(b) He was an accountant.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a goldsmith.

5. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) The serials people loved to read in Ancient Rome.
(b) The popular novels of Ancient Greece.
(c) The fact that in the earliest days of the written word, there were no spaces between words.
(d) The long scrolls common in ancient Egypt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?

2. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?

3. What does Carr say was a feature of early writing that is hard for us to imagine today?

4. What do determinists believe, according to Carr?

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

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