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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. Which writer does Carr identify in Chapter Eight as sounding the keynote for our modern approach to managing information?
(a) Noam Chomsky.
(b) Vannevar Bush.
(c) George Bush.
(d) Marshall Lewis.

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

3. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $2,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $500.

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

5. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?
(a) TV Shows and radio.
(b) CDs and DVDs.
(c) TV shows and movies.
(d) Records and audiobooks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?

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

3. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest paradox of using the Internet?

4. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?

5. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?

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