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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) There was no capitalization.
(b) The ancient writers only used two vowels.
(c) There was only blue and red ink in use.
(d) There were no spaces separating the words.

2. What skill was Plato best known for?
(a) Writing.
(b) Debating.
(c) Editing.
(d) Oration.

3. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?
(a) Ingenuity.
(b) Human will.
(c) Foresight.
(d) Progress.

4. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) John Michael Gutenberg.
(c) Johannes Burler.
(d) Hans Rasmus Johann Malling-Hansen.

5. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?
(a) Nicholas Carr.
(b) Bill Richardson.
(c) John Kemeny.
(d) Steve Jobs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?

2. What did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?

3. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?

4. How did the rise of silent reading change the architecture of libraries, according to Carr?

5. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?

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