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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 177 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carr write that computer memory exists as?
(a) Simple binary bits of ones and zeros.
(b) Simple colors.
(c) Different software languages.
(d) Simple numbers from 0 - 100.

2. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?
(a) Mainz.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

3. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?
(a) The strength of a code.
(b) Signal strength of transistors.
(c) The bandwith of fiber optic cables.
(d) A machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior that is equal to, or even indistinguishable from, a human's.

4. What line did Walt Whitman write in one of the opening verses of Leaves of Grass?
(a) Do not put your faith in frivolous tools.
(b) I can not take the world as it is much longer.
(c) We have seen the enemy, and it is us.
(d) I project the history of the future.

5. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite Alphonse de Lamartine as predicting in 1831?
(a) That the creation of television would kill movie theaters.
(b) That the creation and widespread use of the telephone would mean people would never leave their houses again.
(c) That the phonograph would eclipse all other media.
(d) That newspapers would kill printed books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the philosopher Martin Heidegger write about the effects of the frenziedness of technology?

2. What was Google's ambitious social networking site that launched at the end of 2009?

3. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

5. In Chapter Seven, Carr says that if working memory is the mind's scratch pad, then long-term memory is which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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