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

2. In Chapter Seven, Carr argues that distractions cause greater impairment when the train of thought we are involved in is which of the following?
(a) More scientific.
(b) More social.
(c) More emotional
(d) More complex.

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

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?

2. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?

3. Fewer than one in ten page views extend beyond which of the following time frames, according to German researchers Carr cites in Chapter Seven?

4. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite Alphonse de Lamartine as predicting in 1831?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, how did educators' hopes for the positive effects of students reading texts with hyperlinks work out?

2. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the positives and negatives of skimming while reading?

3. What is the Flynn effect?

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

5. 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?

6. What did Google's Eric Schmidt tell the Wall Street Journal is Google's main goal, and how long does he expect it to take to achieve that goal?

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

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. 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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