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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?
(a) Michael Moskovitz.
(b) J.Z. Young.
(c) Jessica Joyner.
(d) Marion Crace.

2. What did Lee de Forest invent?
(a) The Audion.
(b) The television.
(c) The Enigma machine.
(d) The short-wave radio.

3. According to Carr in Chapter Three, every technology is an expression of which of the following?
(a) Progress.
(b) Foresight.
(c) Human will.
(d) Ingenuity.

4. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1984.

5. In Chapter Four, who does Carr claim were the first people to use a specialized medium for writing?
(a) The Europeans.
(b) The Arabs.
(c) The Greeks.
(d) The Sumerians.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?

3. Who were the first people to start manufacturing scrolls of papyrus?

4. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?

5. Who was one of the inventors of BASIC, the first programming language to use common words and syntax?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?

3. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?

4. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?

5. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?

6. How does Carr describe Friedrich Nietzsche's feelings towards his first typewriter?

7. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?

8. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?

9. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?

10. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?

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