1. According to Carr, language itself is NOT which of the following?
(a) A group exercise.
(b) Usually learned by the age of 5.
(c) A critical means of communication.
(d) A technology.

2. What does Carr say happened when people began writing down their thoughts and reading the thoughts of others?
(a) They started telling stories to each other less.
(b) The parts of their brains that processed auditory signals shrank.
(c) They started going to the theater more.
(d) They became less dependent on their own memories.

3. What is the title of Eric Kandel's 2006 memoir?
(a) A Kandel in the Wind.
(b) Tales from a Laboratory.
(c) In Search of Memory.
(d) Neurology and Computers: A Paradox.

4. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
(a) Survival of the busiest.
(b) Survival of the fastest.
(c) Survival of the most connected.
(d) Survival of the fittest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who carried a stopwatch into the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s and came up with a new system of maximizing workers' efficiency?

2. How does Clive Thompson, an editor of Wired, refer to the Net?

3. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?

4. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?

5. What did the first researcher to show how people's brains change in response to Internet activity use to scan the brains of his subjects?

(see the answer key)

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