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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Google's ambitious social networking site that launched at the end of 2009?
(a) Google Plus.
(b) Google Net.
(c) Google Wave.
(d) Google Surf.

3. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?
(a) Running.
(b) Watching television.
(c) Doing a crossword puzzle.
(d) Eating.

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

5. What is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?
(a) Scattered.
(b) Distracted.
(c) The More, the Better.
(d) The Costs of Computer Work.

6. In Chapter Five, which newspaper does Carr cite as ceasing its print edition in 2009?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Washington Post.
(c) The Christian Science Monitor.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

7. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr cite the Roman philosopher Seneca as having said 2,000 years ago?
(a) Sorry is the scribe who splits his time between two scrolls.
(b) You can be a jack of all trades, but a master of none.
(c) To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
(d) To run is but to hide for a short time.

8. What did Samuel Johnson do on the night of April 18, 1775, when he visited the library at Cambridge's grand villa?
(a) Start tearing pages from the books he was interested in.
(b) Shove books in his leather bag to steal for later.
(c) Light every book on fire.
(d) Dash to the shelves to read the titles on the spines of the books.

9. What is one of the newest branches of the New York Public Library, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
(a) The Bronx Library Center.
(b) The Bryant Park Library Center.
(c) The Fifth Street Library Center.
(d) The Queens Library Center.

10. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr say about the lives of Internet companies?
(a) They often burn themselves out.
(b) Their biggest challenge is getting start-up money.
(c) They are rarely nasty or brutish, but they do tend to be short.
(d) Their biggest challenge is finding talent to run them.

11. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite Alphonse de Lamartine as predicting in 1831?
(a) That the creation and widespread use of the telephone would mean people would never leave their houses again.
(b) That the creation of television would kill movie theaters.
(c) That the phonograph would eclipse all other media.
(d) That newspapers would kill printed books.

12. In Chapter Five, which publication does Carr cite as once being known for publishing long-form pieces by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson?
(a) The New Yorker.
(b) Vanity Fair.
(c) Rolling Stone.
(d) Clarion.

13. Which book did Christine Rosen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center first try to read on a Kindle?
(a) The Nix.
(b) War and Peace.
(c) A Tale of Two Cities.
(d) Nicholas Nickleby.

14. Which researcher carried out the first studies that showed people's brains changing in response to Internet use?
(a) Gayle Peterson.
(b) Gary Small.
(c) Nicole Speer.
(d) Michael Mezenich.

15. What does Carr say, in Chapter Eight, that Larry Page has always viewed Google as an embryonic form of?
(a) Artificial Intelligence.
(b) Academic research.
(c) Content creation.
(d) Space exploration.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the managing director of Guardian News and Media that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?

2. Which former editor of the New York Times Book Review has become a Kindle enthusiast, according to Carr in Chapter Six?

3. In Chapter Seven, why does Carr claim that we want to be interrupted as we work on the Net?

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

5. In Chapter Five, Carr quotes McLuhan as saying a new medium is never which of the following?

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