View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?
(a) Through assessing a person's emotional intelligence.
(b) Through how many languages people speak.
(c) Through how quickly people can do multiplication tables.
(d) Through the way people draw pictures or maps of their surroundings.

2. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?
(a) They were only used by the poorest people.
(b) There was never enough ink to use on the scrolls.
(c) They were expensive.
(d) They were fragile.

3. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Mainz.
(d) Paris.

4. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?
(a) Helped people maximize their productivity in terms of farming and harvesting food.
(b) Helped move societies from agrarian ones to more urban, higher-tech ones.
(c) Helped people stop missing appointments.
(d) Helped people keep Seasonal Affective Disorder in check.

5. 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 went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.
(b) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.
(c) Slaves read to them.
(d) They always had their children read to them.

6. What does Carr say he finds himself trapped in by the mid-1990s relating to computer equipment purchasing?
(a) An upgrade cycle.
(b) A frustrating cycle of devices breaking and Carr needing to spent a lot of money to replace them.
(c) A cycle of debt.
(d) A process of trying to keep up with friends by purchasing the latest equipment.

7. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
(a) 2007.
(b) 1995.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1985.

8. When was the Apple Computer company incorporated?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1990.
(d) 2000.

9. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?
(a) The length of the candles.
(b) The ability of its teachers to impart debating skills.
(c) The capacity of human memory.
(d) The storytelling skills of its elders.

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

11. Which alphabet became the model for most Western alphabets, according to Carr?
(a) Chinese.
(b) Russian.
(c) Arabic.
(d) Greek.

12. What does Hebb's rule say?
(a) Brain cells that regenerate after injury are called super brain cells.
(b) Brain cells that fire together wire together.
(c) Brain cells that do not ever change are called static.
(d) Brain cells that can shift their function from one thing to another are called transformers.

13. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
(a) Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen.
(b) Johannes Burler.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) John Michael Gutenberg.

14. What kind of award did Eric Kandel win for his work on sea slugs in the 1970s?
(a) The Queen's Citation for Excellence in Science.
(b) The Nobel Prize.
(c) The Royal Academy's Science Award.
(d) The James Fields Medal.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What skill was Socrates most well-known for?

2. Carr writes that the computer is our servant, but it is simultaneously which of the following?

3. Which famous philosopher from the 1800s wrote an appreciative small piece about his love for the typewriter?

4. In which year was Carr born?

5. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 564 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample