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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 did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?
(a) Readers became more efficient and more attentive.
(b) Readers became more likely to want to attend the theater.
(c) Readers became more likely to also want to listen to music as they were reading.
(d) Readers became more receptive to having their children learn to read.

2. According to Carr, language itself is NOT which of the following?
(a) A technology.
(b) Usually learned by the age of 5.
(c) A critical means of communication.
(d) A group exercise.

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

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

5. What kind of type did Johannes Gutenberg invent with the printing press?
(a) Movable.
(b) Immovable.
(c) Two-tone.
(d) Bold.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?

3. Who were the first people to start manufacturing scrolls of papyrus?

4. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?

5. As long ago as 8000 BC, what were some people using to keep track of livestock and other good for trading, according to Carr?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?

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

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