2. How did the map and clock change language indirectly, according to Carr?
(a) People started reading maps much more than they read books.
(b) People started drawing clock hands on their books.
(c) New metaphors based on the map and clock arose to describe natural phenomenon.
(d) People started using navigational terms for literature-related topics.

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

4. How did the rise of silent reading change the architecture of libraries, according to Carr?
(a) Theaters were installed.
(b) Small, individual desks were installed.
(c) Private carrels and cloisters were torn out in favor of longer tables in open spaces where people could read silently side by side.
(d) Individual rooms with doors that could be closed were installed.

5. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?
(a) He said it made societies much more equal.
(b) He said it made books much less expensive.
(c) He said it changed things all over the world so much that no empire or sect or star had as great an effect worldwide.
(d) He said it made everyone, everywhere, better educated.

6. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?
(a) Our savior.
(b) Our master.
(c) Our friend.
(d) Our confidant.

7. What skill was Plato best known for?
(a) Editing.
(b) Debating.
(c) Writing.
(d) Oration.

8. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?
(a) $2,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $500.

9. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?
(a) Bill Richardson.
(b) Nicholas Carr.
(c) John Kemeny.
(d) Steve Jobs.

10. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?
(a) The modem.
(b) The so-called Turning Machine, which is the forerunner to the modern computer.
(c) The software language Python.
(d) The circuit board.

11. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?
(a) Florida State University.
(b) Penn State University.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) Dartmouth University.

12. What is the name of the computer from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey?
(a) Dave.
(b) Winifred.
(c) Wemberly.
(d) HAL.

13. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?
(a) Fred Armisen.
(b) John Sonyar.
(c) Joe O'Shea.
(d) James Murphy.

14. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Mississippi.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) Alabama.

15. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?
(a) The bandwith of fiber optic cables.
(b) The strength of a code.
(c) Signal strength of transistors.
(d) A machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior that is equal to, or even indistinguishable from, a human's.