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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. 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?
(a) Frederick Winslow Taylor.
(b) Alfie Stalwart.
(c) Michael James Morrison.
(d) James Morrison Dupree.

2. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?
(a) The ability to know a subject in depth for ourselves.
(b) The ability to discuss a given topic in a debating format.
(c) The ability to cite at least three academic scholars who specialized in a given topic.
(d) The ability to write at least five pages of clear reasoning on a given topic, and to provide a window into an opposing point of view.

3. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?
(a) Michael Moskovitz.
(b) J.Z. Young.
(c) Jessica Joyner.
(d) Marion Crace.

4. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
(a) John Michael Gutenberg.
(b) Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Johannes Burler.

5. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr argue the Net commands with a far greater insistency than television or radio?
(a) Attention.
(b) Education.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?

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

4. Who created the Hypercard application?

5. Where does the hippocampus lie in the brain's anatomy?

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