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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 skill was Socrates most well-known for?
(a) Debating.
(b) Editing.
(c) Writing.
(d) Oration.

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?
(a) Through how quickly people can do multiplication tables.
(b) Through the way people draw pictures or maps of their surroundings.
(c) Through assessing a person's emotional intelligence.
(d) Through how many languages people speak.

3. In which year was Carr born?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1959.

4. Which famous philosopher from the 1800s wrote an appreciative small piece about his love for the typewriter?
(a) Karl Marx.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Friedrich Nietzsche.
(d) William Shakespeare.

5. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?
(a) They were only used by the poorest people.
(b) They were fragile.
(c) There was never enough ink to use on the scrolls.
(d) They were expensive.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?

2. Who created the Hypercard application?

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

4. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?

5. What did Lee de Forest invent?

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