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

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

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

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

5. What did Lee de Forest invent?
(a) The Enigma machine.
(b) The television.
(c) The Audion.
(d) The short-wave radio.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

2. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

3. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?

4. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?

5. What skill was Plato best known for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Carr describe Friedrich Nietzsche's feelings towards his first typewriter?

3. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?

4. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?

5. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?

6. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?

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

8. When scientists first discovered how adaptable, or "plastic" the brain was, how did the field of neuroscience receive this revelation?

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

10. 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?

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