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

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

3. In Chapter Four, who does Carr claim were the first people to use a specialized medium for writing?
(a) The Europeans.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) The Sumerians.
(d) The Arabs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In which year was Carr born?

2. Who created the Hypercard application?

3. How did the map and clock change language indirectly, according to Carr?

4. What famous work of Saint Augustine's does Carr reference in Chapter Four?

5. What else besides repeated physical actions can rewire the human brain?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?

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

3. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?

4. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?

5. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?

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

7. What movie does Carr reference in Chapter One, and what does he use the reference to illustrate?

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

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

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

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