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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who was the inventor of the typewriter?
2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say Theuth thought about the art of writing?
3. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
4. What skill was Plato best known for?
5. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?
2. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?
3. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?
4. How does Carr describe the characteristics of a so-called technological determinist?
5. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
6. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say research suggests about the relationship between the time people spend on the Net and the time they spend watching television?
7. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?
8. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
9. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?
10. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When and how did scientists first begin to understand how much more "plastic," or adaptable, the brain was? How were the early works of these scientists received in the academic and medical fields at first? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 2
According to Carr, what are some of the reasons that technologies that restructure language have the most significant impacts on our thought processes? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay explaining why Carr is reluctant to believe, at first, that using a tool like the Internet can actually change the way his brain works and functions, citing specific references to the text to support your answers. What factors, events, or conversations change Carr's mind on this topic?
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