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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. How does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?
(a) The brain needs medication to be able to change as people age.
(b) The brain becomes more able to change as people age.
(c) The brain becomes less able to change as quickly as people age.
(d) The brain requires surgery to be able to change as people age.

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

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

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

5. About how many bibles did Gutenberg print before running out of money?
(a) 200.
(b) 1000.
(c) 5000.
(d) 500.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?

4. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

5. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?

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