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

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

3. Which book did Christine Rosen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center first try to read on a Kindle?
(a) Nicholas Nickleby.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) The Nix.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Aristotle think the primary function of the human brain was?

2. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?

3. What does the researcher Nicole Speer say about the act of deep reading?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

5. Which major publisher does Carr mention in Chapter Six that began publishing e-novels with videos embedded in them?

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