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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. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1920.
(d) 1954.

2. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
(a) Help people learn to read more quickly.
(b) Help people learn how to grow gardens.
(c) Shape the process of thought.
(d) Shape the business models of technology.

3. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?
(a) Through experiments that studied the brain's reaction to injuries.
(b) Through experiments about the movement of the right arm.
(c) Through experiments researches tracked on ultrasound machines.
(d) Through experiments about language.

4. What book of Steven Johnson's does Carr cite in Chapter Seven?
(a) The Computational World and the Brain.
(b) The Age of Internet Addiction.
(c) Computers Galore.
(d) Everything Bad is Good For You.

5. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?
(a) He said it made everyone, everywhere, better educated.
(b) He said it changed things all over the world so much that no empire or sect or star had as great an effect worldwide.
(c) He said it made books much less expensive.
(d) He said it made societies much more equal.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?

2. According to Carr in Chapter Four, what kind of reading was largely unknown in the ancient world?

3. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

4. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?

5. In Chapter Seven, why does Carr claim that we want to be interrupted as we work on the Net?

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