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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 does Carr say, in Chapter Eight, that Larry Page has always viewed Google as an embryonic form of?
(a) Space exploration.
(b) Academic research.
(c) Content creation.
(d) Artificial Intelligence.

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?
(a) Through how many languages people speak.
(b) Through how quickly people can do multiplication tables.
(c) Through the way people draw pictures or maps of their surroundings.
(d) Through assessing a person's emotional intelligence.

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

4. What topic did Google founder Larry Page select for his dissertation at Stanford?
(a) Data Mining.
(b) Privacy concerns on the Web.
(c) The World Wide Web.
(d) How to create the most advertising revenue through search engine optimization.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?

2. What is one of the newest branches of the New York Public Library, according to Carr in Chapter Five?

3. What letter do people's eye movements roughly trace the shape of when they read content online, according to researcher Jakob Nielsen?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue that hyperlinks do in a text?

5. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

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