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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) Oration.
(c) Editing.
(d) Writing.

2. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
(a) They went to mass where the priests read the religious texts to congregations.
(b) Slaves read to them.
(c) They always had their children read to them.
(d) They had crude recordings of the authors reading their own works.

3. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?
(a) James Murphy.
(b) John Sonyar.
(c) Fred Armisen.
(d) Joe O'Shea.

4. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?
(a) Through experiments about the movement of the right arm.
(b) Through experiments researches tracked on ultrasound machines.
(c) Through experiments about language.
(d) Through experiments that studied the brain's reaction to injuries.

5. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?
(a) One of IBM's earliest desktops.
(b) An early Apple Smartphone.
(c) One of Apple's earliest Macintoshes.
(d) One of Toshibia's early laptops.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?

3. In what year was the HAL 9000 computer made operational, according to Carr in Chapter One?

4. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?

5. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?

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

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