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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Pages 133 - 176).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Eric Schmidt tell The Wall Street Journal in 2005 that it would take Google to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful?
(a) 300 years.
(b) 1000 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 25 years.

2. What topic did Google founder Larry Page select for his dissertation at Stanford?
(a) Data Mining.
(b) The World Wide Web.
(c) How to create the most advertising revenue through search engine optimization.
(d) Privacy concerns on the Web.

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

4. When did Nathaniel Hawthorne write about the advantages of people spending time in nature?
(a) 1810.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1825.
(d) 1844.

5. Who were the first people to start manufacturing scrolls of papyrus?
(a) Arabs.
(b) Europeans.
(c) Greeks.
(d) Egyptians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Page and Brin formally announce in 2004 in relation to books?

2. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?

3. Which writer does Carr identify in Chapter Eight as sounding the keynote for our modern approach to managing information?

4. What does Carr say that the Net is by design in Chapter Seven?

5. Which dialogue did Plato write about love, beauty and rhetoric that Carr references in Chapter Three?

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