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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 does Carr say about the state of electronic books in Chapter Six?
(a) They are sure to outpace book sales in the next few years.
(b) They are sure to be a centerpiece of Apple's business model in the next several years.
(c) Despite years of hype, most people have not shown much interest in them.
(d) They are sure to replace books entirely by the end of the decade.

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 always had their children read to them.
(b) Slaves read to them.
(c) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.
(d) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.

3. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr argue the Net commands with a far greater insistency than television or radio?
(a) Money.
(b) Education.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Attention.

4. Which alphabet became the model for most Western alphabets, according to Carr?
(a) Russian.
(b) Chinese.
(c) Greek.
(d) Arabic.

5. In Chapter Four, who does Carr claim were the first people to use a specialized medium for writing?
(a) The Sumerians.
(b) The Europeans.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Arabs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?

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

3. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?

4. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?

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

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