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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. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1920.

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

3. What kind of award did Eric Kandel win for his work on sea slugs in the 1970s?
(a) The Nobel Prize.
(b) The James Fields Medal.
(c) The Royal Academy's Science Award.
(d) The Queen's Citation for Excellence in Science.

4. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?
(a) Foresight.
(b) Progress.
(c) Ingenuity.
(d) Human will.

5. What famous work of Saint Augustine's does Carr reference in Chapter Four?
(a) Phaedrus.
(b) The DaVinci Code.
(c) Confessions.
(d) Illuminati.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?

2. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

3. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

4. In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?

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

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