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

2. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
(a) TV viewing and Web surfing.
(b) TV viewing and Smartphone use.
(c) Smartphone use and computer use.
(d) Web surfing and eating.

3. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?
(a) Walter Winchell.
(b) Nicholas Carr.
(c) Marshall McLuhan.
(d) Merrion Crace.

4. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?
(a) The so-called Turning Machine, which is the forerunner to the modern computer.
(b) The modem.
(c) The software language Python.
(d) The circuit board.

5. What skill was Plato best known for?
(a) Editing.
(b) Writing.
(c) Oration.
(d) Debating.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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