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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. What role do researchers think the hippocampus plays in human memory processing?
(a) It may process the emotions a certain memory entails.
(b) It helps encode the colors in memories.
(c) It may store short-term memories and help transfer and process those memories into a different part of the brain, where they become long-term memories.
(d) It may protect a person's trauma centers from particularly terrible memories.

2. What did Page and Brin formally announce in 2004 in relation to books?
(a) The Scribe Project.
(b) The Google Print program.
(c) The Lexicon Project.
(d) The Papyrus Project.

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

4. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
(a) Eclipses it.
(b) Has a neutral effect on it.
(c) Heightens it.
(d) Diminishes it.

5. What letter do people's eye movements roughly trace the shape of when they read content online, according to researcher Jakob Nielsen?
(a) F.
(b) H.
(c) J.
(d) I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which famous philosopher from the 1800s wrote an appreciative small piece about his love for the typewriter?

2. What are the tiny jumps people's eye movements make as they read, as discovered by Louis Emilie Javal in 1879?

3. What does Carr write that computer memory exists as?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

5. What does Carr say happened when people began writing down their thoughts and reading the thoughts of others?

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