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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 is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?
(a) The Costs of Computer Work.
(b) The More, the Better.
(c) Distracted.
(d) Scattered.

2. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?
(a) They were only used by the poorest people.
(b) They were fragile.
(c) They were expensive.
(d) There was never enough ink to use on the scrolls.

3. What does New York University professor Clay Shirkey suggest is overrated in Chapter Six?
(a) Newspapers.
(b) Surfing the Net.
(c) Reading long novels like War and Peace.
(d) Going to college.

4. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?
(a) He was an accountant.
(b) He was a goldsmith.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a doctor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?

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

3. In Chapter Five, which publication does Carr cite as once being known for publishing long-form pieces by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson?

4. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr say about the lives of Internet companies?

5. Who created the Hypercard application?

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