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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) Phaedrus.
(d) The Iliad.

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

3. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1984.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1980.

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

5. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
(a) Survival of the busiest.
(b) Survival of the fastest.
(c) Survival of the fittest.
(d) Survival of the most connected.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?

2. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?

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

4. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?

5. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?

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 Friedrich Nietzsche's feelings towards his first typewriter?

4. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?

5. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?

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