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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 did studies on boxers in the 1890s reveal about the brain?
(a) That repeated blows to the head could trigger tremors.
(b) That repeated blows to the head could affect a boxer's ability to process auditory signals.
(c) That repeated blows to the head could cause blindness.
(d) That a concussive blow to the head could bring on retrograde amnesia.

2. According to Carr in Chapter Seven, which of the following forms the major bottleneck in our brains?
(a) The passage from working memory to long-term memory.
(b) The process of learning new musical sounds.
(c) The processing of visual information, especially bright colors.
(d) The encoding of new words we have learned.

3. What did Samuel Johnson do on the night of April 18, 1775, when he visited the library at Cambridge's grand villa?
(a) Dash to the shelves to read the titles on the spines of the books.
(b) Shove books in his leather bag to steal for later.
(c) Light every book on fire.
(d) Start tearing pages from the books he was interested in.

4. In Chapter Five, Carr quotes McLuhan as saying a new medium is never which of the following?
(a) A sign of progress.
(b) A sign of regression.
(c) An addition to an old one.
(d) Cheap.

5. What kind of sea slugs did Eric Kandel perform experiments on in the early 1970s?
(a) Cucumbers.
(b) Golangels.
(c) Aplysia.
(d) Prickly slugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?

3. What is the name Google a play on?

4. What does Carr say is the key to memory consolidation in Chapter Nine?

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?

(see the answer key)

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