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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I (Pages 1 - 44).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who created the Hypercard application?
(a) Bill Atkinson.
(b) Harry Prevnar.
(c) James Jamison.
(d) Charles Lightner.

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

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

4. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?
(a) Nicholas Carr.
(b) Marshall McLuhan.
(c) Walter Winchell.
(d) Merrion Crace.

5. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
(a) 1985.
(b) 2007.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Aristotle think the primary function of the human brain was?

2. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?

3. What else besides repeated physical actions can rewire the human brain?

4. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?

5. Which neuroscientist carried out ground-breaking experiments in the late 1960s that pioneered the ideas of neuroplasticity?

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