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

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say Theuth thought about the art of writing?
(a) He thought it would lead to uprisings against the ruling classes.
(b) He thought it would make Egyptians wiser and improve their memories.
(c) He thought it would lead to unrest among the farmers.
(d) He thought it would lead people to more secular lives.

3. Which media mogul at RCA and NBC dismissed criticism of the mass media on which his career was built in the year 1955?
(a) Walter Winchell.
(b) Les Moonves.
(c) Walter White.
(d) David Sarnoff.

4. What did Aristotle think the primary function of the human brain was?
(a) To keep the heart beating.
(b) To keep the emotions in check.
(c) To keep the body from overheating.
(d) To process auditory signals.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?

2. What does Carr say he finds himself trapped in by the mid-1990s relating to computer equipment purchasing?

3. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

4. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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