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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 do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?
(a) Tools of technology will be the end of humanity.
(b) Tools of technology have their own paths and need to be tightly controlled.
(c) Tools of technology are neutral in themselves and have no ends of their own.
(d) Tools of technology are only for the wealthy.

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

3. What did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?
(a) Readers became more likely to want to attend the theater.
(b) Readers became more receptive to having their children learn to read.
(c) Readers became more efficient and more attentive.
(d) Readers became more likely to also want to listen to music as they were reading.

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

5. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?
(a) Our master.
(b) Our confidant.
(c) Our friend.
(d) Our savior.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?

2. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?

3. What did the first civilizations in Mesopotamia use to write on?

4. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?

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

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