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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 which year was Carr born?
2. What did a 2006 study by Jupiter Research reveal a huge overlap in, according to Carr in Chapter Five?
3. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
4. According to Carr, what did the widespread use of clocks do for civilization?
5. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?
2. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?
3. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
4. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
5. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?
6. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?
7. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?
8. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?
9. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?
10. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How, and why, did society accept multitasking as a desirable way to work and to consume information? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
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
Write an essay explaining the meaning of the term "switching costs," and explain how they relate to the act of surfing the Internet.
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