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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Who is the managing director of Guardian News and Media that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?
(a) Tim Brooks.
(b) Elton Newton.
(c) Gerald George.
(d) Les Moonves.

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

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

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

6. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say a book retains over the computer as a device for reading?
(a) Some compelling advantages.
(b) Some serious drawbacks.
(c) Some support from authors.
(d) Some financial challenges.

7. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?
(a) The ability to cite at least three academic scholars who specialized in a given topic.
(b) The ability to write at least five pages of clear reasoning on a given topic, and to provide a window into an opposing point of view.
(c) The ability to know a subject in depth for ourselves.
(d) The ability to discuss a given topic in a debating format.

8. What did the Flynn effect refer to?
(a) The steady rise in technological skills in the developed world during the 1990s.
(b) The steady decline in technological skills in the developed world during the 1990s.
(c) The steady decrease in IQ scores around the globe throughout the twentieth century.
(d) The steady increase in IQ scores around the globe throughout the twentieth century.

9. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr argue the Net commands with a far greater insistency than television or radio?
(a) Attention.
(b) Money.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Education.

10. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?
(a) O'Reilly Media.
(b) Random House.
(c) Penguin.
(d) Harper Books.

11. Who carried a stopwatch into the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s and came up with a new system of maximizing workers' efficiency?
(a) Michael James Morrison.
(b) Alfie Stalwart.
(c) James Morrison Dupree.
(d) Frederick Winslow Taylor.

12. Which Israeli company collected data in 2008 on the behavior of a million visitors to sites maintained by its clients around the world?
(a) ClickTale.
(b) WorkRelate.
(c) DataWorld.
(d) ClickFortress.

13. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?
(a) Have a landline phone and social media conversation happening at the same time as one writes a blog.
(b) Have several windows and applications open at the same time.
(c) Have several e-books open at the same time to read.
(d) Have several social media platform conversations happening at the same time while also talking on the phone.

14. In Chapter Seven, Carr argues that distractions cause greater impairment when the train of thought we are involved in is which of the following?
(a) More social.
(b) More scientific.
(c) More emotional
(d) More complex.

15. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say the Net delivers to users on a daily basis through its high-speed system?
(a) Positive reinforcements.
(b) Rewards that our brain treats the same way as it treats sugar.
(c) Negative feelings in the form of jealousy at seeing other people's social media pictures.
(d) More information that anyone could retain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?

2. Which company owns YouTube?

3. Who is Amazon's chief executive, mentioned by Carr in Chapter Six?

4. What does Carr say, in Chapter Eight, that Larry Page has always viewed Google as an embryonic form of?

5. What kinds of problems did Google run into when it tried to begin digitizing the world's books?

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