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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III (Pages 89 - 132).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1954.

2. Which book did Christine Rosen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center first try to read on a Kindle?
(a) War and Peace.
(b) A Tale of Two Cities.
(c) The Nix.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

3. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
(a) A strange anomaly.
(b) A progressive lead forward.
(c) A hindrance in human survival rates.
(d) A natural step in human history.

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say happens to other media as the Net expands?
(a) Other media flourish.
(b) Other media try to catch up.
(c) Other media adapt.
(d) Other media contract.

5. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?
(a) Running.
(b) Doing a crossword puzzle.
(c) Watching television.
(d) Eating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the main drawbacks to scrolls?

2. In Chapter Seven, Carr says that if working memory is the mind's scratch pad, then long-term memory is which of the following?

3. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?

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

5. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?

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