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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. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
(a) Shape the business models of technology.
(b) Help people learn how to grow gardens.
(c) Shape the process of thought.
(d) Help people learn to read more quickly.

2. What kind of type did Johannes Gutenberg invent with the printing press?
(a) Immovable.
(b) Two-tone.
(c) Movable.
(d) Bold.

3. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
(a) Survival of the fastest.
(b) Survival of the busiest.
(c) Survival of the most connected.
(d) Survival of the fittest.

4. What skill was Socrates most well-known for?
(a) Editing.
(b) Writing.
(c) Debating.
(d) Oration.

5. Who were the first people to start manufacturing scrolls of papyrus?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Egyptians.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Europeans.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?

2. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?

3. What does Hebb's rule say?

4. How many categories does Carr claim our technologies can be divided into in Chapter Three?

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

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