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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. How does Carr report that the layout of the Bronx Library Center has recently changed in Chapter Five?
(a) The books and computers are both in the center.
(b) At the center are Internet-connected computers, and the print books have been pushed to the margins.
(c) At the center are the people, and the computers and books are at the margins.
(d) At the center are the books, and the computers are at the margins.

2. What does researcher Gary Smalls say that using the Net is like in terms of how the brain has to work, in some ways?
(a) Running.
(b) Eating.
(c) Doing a crossword puzzle.
(d) Watching television.

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

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

5. What was an early version of Google called in 1996?
(a) SearchMe!
(b) ModernWorld.
(c) BackRub.
(d) FindOut.

Short Answer Questions

1. What 1993 book of Neil Postman's does Carr reference in Chapter Eight?

2. According to Carr in Chapter Eight, how could the authority of any Web page be gauged in the early days of Google's first search engine?

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

4. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say the Net delivers to users on a daily basis through its high-speed system?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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 think about the positives and negatives of skimming while reading?

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

8. In Chapter Seven, about how long did researcher Gary Small find that it took for people's brains to become rewired after using the Internet?

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

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

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