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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. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?
(a) Florida State University.
(b) Dartmouth University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Penn State University.

2. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?
(a) Daedulus.
(b) The Iliad.
(c) Circe.
(d) Phaedrus.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the map and clock change language indirectly, according to Carr?

2. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?

3. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?

4. What skill was Plato best known for?

5. What does Hebb's rule say?

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