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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 177 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which educational testing firm in England released an automated marking program for school essays in 2009?
(a) Borgetts and Blotts.
(b) Edexcel.
(c) Kaplan.
(d) MarkRite.

2. In Chapter Five, which publication does Carr cite as once being known for publishing long-form pieces by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson?
(a) Vanity Fair.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Clarion.

3. What role do researchers think the hippocampus plays in human memory processing?
(a) It may store short-term memories and help transfer and process those memories into a different part of the brain, where they become long-term memories.
(b) It helps encode the colors in memories.
(c) It may process the emotions a certain memory entails.
(d) It may protect a person's trauma centers from particularly terrible memories.

4. What does psychologist Sheila Crowell say the very act of remembering may do to a human brain?
(a) Strengthen its visual cortex.
(b) Change it in a way that can make it easier to learn ideas and skills later.
(c) Strengthen its audio processing areas.
(d) Change it so that it is easier to tell stories later on.

5. Ari Sculman wrote that the brain's connections do not merely provide access to a memory, but they also do which of the following?
(a) They help a person figure out how they feel, emotionally, about a memory.
(b) They constitute memories themselves.
(c) They help a person tell stories about the memory.
(d) They help a person form new memories.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?

2. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?

3. According to Carr in Chapter Eight, how could the authority of any Web page be gauged in the early days of Google's first search engine?

4. What did the philosopher Martin Heidegger write about the effects of the frenziedness of technology?

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue that hyperlinks do in a text?

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