View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $500.
(d) $5,000.

2. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
(a) Diminishes it.
(b) Heightens it.
(c) Eclipses it.
(d) Has a neutral effect on it.

3. Who created the Hypercard application?
(a) Bill Atkinson.
(b) Charles Lightner.
(c) Harry Prevnar.
(d) James Jamison.

4. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?
(a) He becomes a marketing chief for Google.
(b) He becomes a software engineer.
(c) He becomes a blogger.
(d) He becomes a user-interface professional for Apple.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?

3. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 251 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample