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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. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.
(b) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.
(c) Slaves read to them.
(d) They always had their children read to them.

2. Which researcher carried out the first studies that showed people's brains changing in response to Internet use?
(a) Michael Mezenich.
(b) Gayle Peterson.
(c) Nicole Speer.
(d) Gary Small.

3. What job did Johannes Gutenberg have before inventing the printing press?
(a) He was a goldsmith.
(b) He was an accountant.
(c) He was a lawyer.
(d) He was a doctor.

4. In Chapter Seven, Carr argues that distractions cause greater impairment when the train of thought we are involved in is which of the following?
(a) More emotional
(b) More complex.
(c) More social.
(d) More scientific.

5. When did Nathaniel Hawthorne write about the advantages of people spending time in nature?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1810.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1844.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which company owns YouTube?

2. Which former editor of the New York Times Book Review has become a Kindle enthusiast, according to Carr in Chapter Six?

3. In Chapter Seven, why does Carr claim that we want to be interrupted as we work on the Net?

4. How does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?

5. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?

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