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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) We love to communicate through the written word, and email is a perfect avenue for that.
(b) We are social creatures by nature, and we love social media messages.
(c) We all need frequent breaks to process new information.
(d) Each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information.

2. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say happens to other media as the Net expands?
(a) Other media try to catch up.
(b) Other media adapt.
(c) Other media contract.
(d) Other media flourish.

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

4. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?
(a) We are re-writing our neural pathways in our brains.
(b) We are plunged into an "ecosystem of interruption technologies."
(c) We are contributing to Google's advertising revenue.
(d) We are given small electric shocks.

5. What kinds of problems did Google run into when it tried to begin digitizing the world's books?
(a) An overload on the company's servers.
(b) Authors started widespread demonstrations in the streets of Silicon Valley against the project.
(c) The time it took to scan all the books into its systems was debilitating.
(d) Publishers and authors suing them for copyright infringement.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?

2. What did Samuel Johnson do on the night of April 18, 1775, when he visited the library at Cambridge's grand villa?

3. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?

4. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?

5. Which major publisher does Carr mention in Chapter Six that began publishing e-novels with videos embedded in them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the Flynn effect?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. In Chapter Six, what does Carr report might happen in the future with the incorporation of social media into e-Books?

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

8. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?

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

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

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