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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. Which book did Christine Rosen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center first try to read on a Kindle?

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

3. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr cite the Roman philosopher Seneca as having said 2,000 years ago?

4. When did Nathaniel Hawthorne write about the advantages of people spending time in nature?

5. In Chapter Five, which newspaper does Carr cite as ceasing its print edition in 2009?

Short Essay Questions

1. What factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?

2. Who did Larry Page recruit to help him build what became Google's original search engine, and why did he choose this person?

3. What did Google's Eric Schmidt tell the Wall Street Journal is Google's main goal, and how long does he expect it to take to achieve that goal?

4. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the positives and negatives of skimming while reading?

5. What kinds of problems did Google's effort to digitize all the books ever printed run into?

6. What is the Flynn effect?

7. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?

8. What did Patrician Greenfield's 2009 Science article describe in terms of the skills people acquire from Internet use?

9. What did one of Google's co-founders, Larry Page, base Google's search function on originally?

10. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining Carr's views on how and why the Internet, and people's wide use of the Internet, is fundamentally changing public libraries in the United States.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring how Carr thinks the rise of eReaders and eBooks will change, or even possibly eliminate, people's experiences of deep reading.

Essay Topic 3

According to Carr, how and why did educators' ideas about the possible benefits of hypertext for students and for learning turn out to be wrong? Write an essay explaining your answer.

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