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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II (Pages 45 - 88).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Carr say was a feature of early writing that is hard for us to imagine today?
(a) The ancient writers only used two vowels.
(b) There was no capitalization.
(c) There were no spaces separating the words.
(d) There was only blue and red ink in use.

2. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?
(a) Erasmus.
(b) Rene Descartes.
(c) Stephen Daedalus.
(d) Socrates.

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 White.
(b) Walter Winchell.
(c) David Sarnoff.
(d) Les Moonves.

4. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?
(a) He said it made societies much more equal.
(b) He said it made books much less expensive.
(c) He said it changed things all over the world so much that no empire or sect or star had as great an effect worldwide.
(d) He said it made everyone, everywhere, better educated.

5. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
(a) Shape the business models of technology.
(b) Help people learn to read more quickly.
(c) Help people learn how to grow gardens.
(d) Shape the process of thought.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

2. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?

3. What do determinists believe, according to Carr?

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

5. Which alphabet became the model for most Western alphabets, according to Carr?

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