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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 176).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous work of Saint Augustine's does Carr reference in Chapter Four?
(a) Illuminati.
(b) The DaVinci Code.
(c) Phaedrus.
(d) Confessions.

2. What does Carr say that the Net is by design in Chapter Seven?
(a) An ad revenue tool.
(b) An interruption system.
(c) A purveyor of fine goods.
(d) An educational tool.

3. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?
(a) Toshiba's tablet.
(b) Amazon's Kindle.
(c) Samsung's tablet.
(d) Apple's iPad.

4. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
(a) Survival of the fastest.
(b) Survival of the fittest.
(c) Survival of the busiest.
(d) Survival of the most connected.

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?
(a) Media technologies.
(b) Meeting places.
(c) The front lines of social welfare.
(d) Publicly funded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?

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

3. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?

4. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

5. Who created the Hypercard application?

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