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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. Which writer does Carr identify in Chapter Eight as sounding the keynote for our modern approach to managing information?
(a) Marshall Lewis.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Noam Chomsky.
(d) Vannevar Bush.

2. What does the Norwegian literary studies professor Anne Mangen say all reading is?
(a) Multi-sensory.
(b) A means of self-improvement.
(c) A sign of humanity's progress.
(d) An exercise in patience.

3. What is one of the newest branches of the New York Public Library, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
(a) The Bronx Library Center.
(b) The Fifth Street Library Center.
(c) The Queens Library Center.
(d) The Bryant Park Library Center.

4. Fewer than one in ten page views extend beyond which of the following time frames, according to German researchers Carr cites in Chapter Seven?
(a) 2 minutes.
(b) 1 minute.
(c) 30 seconds.
(d) 5 minutes.

5. Which major publisher does Carr mention in Chapter Six that began publishing e-novels with videos embedded in them?
(a) Hyperion.
(b) Simon and Shuster.
(c) Penguin.
(d) Random House.

Short Answer Questions

1. What book of Steven Johnson's does Carr cite in Chapter Seven?

2. What does Carr say about the state of electronic books in Chapter Six?

3. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?

4. In Chapter Five, Carr quotes McLuhan as saying a new medium is never which of the following?

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?

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

4. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the effects of email notifications on people's concentration when working online?

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

6. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?

7. In Chapter Six, what was the experience of Christine Rosen, the fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., when she read an e-copy of Nicholas Nickleby?

8. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?

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

10. In Chapter Six, Carr cites the work of some academics, including New York University's Clay Shirkey, as saying that deep reading was always overrated. Why did Shirkey and others think that reading long literary novels was overrated?

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