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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. In what year does Carr say he starts to have reservations and misgivings about how his time spent online is affecting him?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1995.
(d) 2007.

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr posit is one way to trace the intellectual maturation of individuals?
(a) Through how quickly people can do multiplication tables.
(b) Through the way people draw pictures or maps of their surroundings.
(c) Through assessing a person's emotional intelligence.
(d) Through how many languages people speak.

3. What did the creation of word breaks and punctuation do for readers as the act of writing evolved, according to Carr?
(a) Readers became more efficient and more attentive.
(b) Readers became more likely to want to attend the theater.
(c) Readers became more likely to also want to listen to music as they were reading.
(d) Readers became more receptive to having their children learn to read.

4. Who did Gutenberg secure funding for his printing press from?
(a) His father, Josiah Gutenberg.
(b) A neighbor, Johann Fust.
(c) His best friend, Sebastian Bach.
(d) His Uncle, Rhine Gutenberg.

5. In Chapter Three, which of the following does Carr say is often not recognized by a technology's inventor?
(a) Its cost.
(b) Its longevity.
(c) Its benefits.
(d) Its intellectual ethic.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?

2. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?

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. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?

5. Who was one of the first biologists to argue that the human brain might be in a constant state of flux?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What movie does Carr reference in Chapter One, and what does he use the reference to illustrate?

4. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?

5. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?

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