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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 does the brain's ability to adapt to changes shift as people age?
(a) The brain becomes less able to change as quickly as people age.
(b) The brain requires surgery to be able to change as people age.
(c) The brain becomes more able to change as people age.
(d) The brain needs medication to be able to change as people age.

2. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?
(a) The ability to discuss a given topic in a debating format.
(b) The ability to write at least five pages of clear reasoning on a given topic, and to provide a window into an opposing point of view.
(c) The ability to know a subject in depth for ourselves.
(d) The ability to cite at least three academic scholars who specialized in a given topic.

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

4. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Mainz.
(d) Berlin.

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?
(a) The Rocky Mountain News.
(b) The Colorado Record.
(c) The Colorado Caller.
(d) The Colorado Clarion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue that hyperlinks do in a text?

2. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?

3. What does the phrase scriptura continua refer to, according to Carr in Chapter Four?

4. When did Nathaniel Hawthorne write about the advantages of people spending time in nature?

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?

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