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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?
(a) Daedulus.
(b) Circe.
(c) The Iliad.
(d) Phaedrus.

2. 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.

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

4. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?
(a) Tools of technology are neutral in themselves and have no ends of their own.
(b) Tools of technology are only for the wealthy.
(c) Tools of technology will be the end of humanity.
(d) Tools of technology have their own paths and need to be tightly controlled.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?

2. What does the researcher Nicole Speer say about the act of deep reading?

3. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?

4. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?

5. What did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?

2. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?

3. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say research suggests about the relationship between the time people spend on the Net and the time they spend watching television?

5. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?

6. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?

7. What invention did Lee de Forest create, and what technological advances did it allow for?

8. In Chapter One, how does Joe O'Shea feel about his decision to stop reading books in favor of the shorter-form content of the Internet?

9. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?

10. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?

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