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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. In Chapter Four, who does Carr claim were the first people to use a specialized medium for writing?

2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?

3. What do determinists believe, according to Carr?

4. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?

5. According to Carr, language itself is NOT which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What movie does Carr reference in Chapter One, and what does he use the reference to illustrate?

2. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?

3. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?

4. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?

5. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?

6. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?

7. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?

8. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?

9. In Chapter One, how does Joe O'Shea feel about his decision to stop reading books in favor of the shorter-form content of the Internet?

10. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to Carr, how and why did educators' ideas about the possible benefits of hypertext for students and for learning turn out to be wrong? Write an essay explaining your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay explaining the meaning of the term "switching costs," and explain how they relate to the act of surfing the Internet.

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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