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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Pages 177 - 224).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?
(a) One of IBM's earliest desktops.
(b) One of Apple's earliest Macintoshes.
(c) An early Apple Smartphone.
(d) One of Toshibia's early laptops.

2. What did the philosopher Martin Heidegger write about the effects of the frenziedness of technology?
(a) It makes it harder for us to appreciate nature.
(b) It threatens to entrench itself everywhere.
(c) It makes us feel more separate from our families.
(d) It makes it harder for us to tell each other stories.

3. Who was the mathematician Larry Page asked to work with him on the first iteration of Google's search function?
(a) Bill Gates.
(b) Larson Nowel.
(c) Eric Schmidt.
(d) Sergey Brin.

4. What does New York University professor Clay Shirkey suggest is overrated in Chapter Six?
(a) Going to college.
(b) Newspapers.
(c) Reading long novels like War and Peace.
(d) Surfing the Net.

5. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?
(a) Records and audiobooks.
(b) TV Shows and radio.
(c) CDs and DVDs.
(d) TV shows and movies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?

2. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?

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

4. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?

5. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?

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