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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. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
(a) Help people learn to read more quickly.
(b) Help people learn how to grow gardens.
(c) Shape the process of thought.
(d) Shape the business models of technology.
2. What skill was Plato best known for?
(a) Editing.
(b) Debating.
(c) Writing.
(d) Oration.
3. What kind of persona did Weizenbaum's computer program in the 1960s assume?
(a) That of a modern psychotherapist.
(b) That of a Jungian therapist.
(c) That of a Freudian therapist.
(d) That of a Rogerian therapist.
4. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say the Net delivers to users on a daily basis through its high-speed system?
(a) More information that anyone could retain.
(b) Negative feelings in the form of jealousy at seeing other people's social media pictures.
(c) Positive reinforcements.
(d) Rewards that our brain treats the same way as it treats sugar.
5. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say Theuth thought about the art of writing?
(a) He thought it would lead to uprisings against the ruling classes.
(b) He thought it would lead to unrest among the farmers.
(c) He thought it would make Egyptians wiser and improve their memories.
(d) He thought it would lead people to more secular lives.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say happens to other media as the Net expands?
2. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
3. Which writer does Carr identify in Chapter Eight as sounding the keynote for our modern approach to managing information?
4. What does the Norwegian literary studies professor Anne Mangen say all reading is?
5. In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?
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