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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 Chapter Seven, why does Carr claim that we want to be interrupted as we work on the Net?
(a) Each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information.
(b) We are social creatures by nature, and we love social media messages.
(c) We all need frequent breaks to process new information.
(d) We love to communicate through the written word, and email is a perfect avenue for that.

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

3. Which former editor of the New York Times Book Review has become a Kindle enthusiast, according to Carr in Chapter Six?
(a) Charles McGrath.
(b) Alice McGrath.
(c) Paul McGrath.
(d) Mary McGrath.

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

5. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?
(a) 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.
(b) The ability to cite at least three academic scholars who specialized in a given topic.
(c) The ability to know a subject in depth for ourselves.
(d) The ability to discuss a given topic in a debating format.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?

3. What topic did Google founder Larry Page select for his dissertation at Stanford?

4. Which company owns YouTube?

5. What does New York University professor Clay Shirkey suggest is overrated in Chapter Six?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?

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

4. In Chapter Eight, how did Frederick Winslow Taylor's methods increase productivity in the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s?

5. In Chapter Five, how does Carr point out that the architecture of the Bronx Library Center has changed to reflect the supremacy of the Internet?

6. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest long-term paradox of the way human attention works when using the Internet?

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

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

9. In Chapter 7, what idea from Samuel Johnson does Carr end the chapter with?

10. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine as saying would be the death of books in 1831?

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