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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?
(a) Ingenuity.
(b) Human will.
(c) Foresight.
(d) Progress.

2. 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) Slaves read to them.
(c) They always had their children read to them.
(d) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.

3. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?
(a) He becomes a software engineer.
(b) He becomes a blogger.
(c) He becomes a marketing chief for Google.
(d) He becomes a user-interface professional for Apple.

4. What skill was Socrates most well-known for?
(a) Debating.
(b) Oration.
(c) Editing.
(d) Writing.

5. Which neuroscientist carried out ground-breaking experiments in the late 1960s that pioneered the ideas of neuroplasticity?
(a) Rene Descartes.
(b) Michael Merzenich.
(c) Norman Dodge.
(d) Jessica Joyner.

6. Which famous philosopher from the 1800s wrote an appreciative small piece about his love for the typewriter?
(a) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(b) William Shakespeare.
(c) Sigmund Freud.
(d) Karl Marx.

7. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
(a) Diminishes it.
(b) Heightens it.
(c) Has a neutral effect on it.
(d) Eclipses it.

8. In which year was Carr born?
(a) 1946.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1936.
(d) 1959.

9. How does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?
(a) The brain requires surgery to be able to change as people age.
(b) The brain becomes less able to change as quickly as people age.
(c) The brain needs medication to be able to change as people age.
(d) The brain becomes more able to change as people age.

10. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?
(a) It is democratic.
(b) It is more accessible.
(c) It is bidirectional.
(d) It is cheap.

11. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
(a) A modem.
(b) An external hard drive.
(c) A Hypercard.
(d) A cyber-optic cable connector.

12. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?
(a) Nicholas Carr.
(b) Merrion Crace.
(c) Marshall McLuhan.
(d) Walter Winchell.

13. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?
(a) Silent, solitary reading.
(b) The ability to read very quickly.
(c) The ability to write neatly.
(d) The ability to project one's voice in a debating hall.

14. How many categories does Carr claim our technologies can be divided into in Chapter Three?
(a) 2.
(b) 8.
(c) 7.
(d) 4.

15. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
(a) A strange anomaly.
(b) A progressive lead forward.
(c) A hindrance in human survival rates.
(d) A natural step in human history.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?

2. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

3. What does Hebb's rule say?

4. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

5. What did Lee de Forest invent?

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