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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. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?
2. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?
3. Who did Gutenberg secure funding for his printing press from?
4. About how much did Carr spend on his first real computer purchase in 1986?
5. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?
2. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?
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. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?
5. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?
6. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?
7. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
8. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?
9. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?
10. What movie does Carr reference in Chapter One, and what does he use the reference to illustrate?
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
Carr writes that "every technology is an expression of human will" (44). Write an essay explaining your interpretation of Carr's meaning with this phrase. How does it relate to his views on computers and the Internet?
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Carr chooses to both begin and end the book The Shallows with references to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and particularly with references to the computer in the film, HAL? What do you think HAL represents to Carr? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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