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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Theorist Marshall McLuhan said that media forms supply the stuff of thought and also do which of the following?
2. What does the researcher Nicole Speer say about the act of deep reading?
3. According to Carr in Chapter Four, what kind of reading was largely unknown in the ancient world?
4. What does Carr say was a feature of early writing that is hard for us to imagine today?
5. Who created the Hypercard application?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
2. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?
3. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
4. When scientists first discovered how adaptable, or "plastic" the brain was, how did the field of neuroscience receive this revelation?
5. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?
6. How does Carr describe the characteristics of a so-called technological determinist?
7. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
8. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?
9. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?
10. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining Carr's views on how and why the Internet, and people's wide use of the Internet, is fundamentally changing public libraries in the United States.
Essay Topic 2
Why is Google's business model so dependent on its ability to feed users information and web content so quickly and efficiently? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
What does Carr mean when he writes that the reader, when engaged in deep, immersive reading, "becomes" the book (74)? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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