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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 89 - 132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Aristotle think the primary function of the human brain was?
(a) To keep the heart beating.
(b) To process auditory signals.
(c) To keep the emotions in check.
(d) To keep the body from overheating.

2. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.
(b) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.
(c) Slaves read to them.
(d) They always had their children read to them.

3. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?
(a) Aplysia.
(b) Cucumbers.
(c) Prickly slugs.
(d) Golangels.

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?
(a) The Rocky Mountain News.
(b) The Colorado Caller.
(c) The Colorado Clarion.
(d) The Colorado Record.

5. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Erasmus.
(c) Rene Descartes.
(d) Stephen Daedalus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say a book retains over the computer as a device for reading?

2. In Chapter Three, which of the following does Carr say is often not recognized by a technology's inventor?

3. What kind of type did Johannes Gutenberg invent with the printing press?

4. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?

5. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?

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