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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. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?
2. What did Lee de Forest invent?
3. Who laid out a theory of dualism in his Meditations of 1641?
4. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?
5. What did the first civilizations in Mesopotamia use to write on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What invention did Lee de Forest create, and what technological advances did it allow for?
2. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?
3. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?
4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say research suggests about the relationship between the time people spend on the Net and the time they spend watching television?
5. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?
6. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?
7. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?
8. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?
9. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?
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
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 why Carr is reluctant to believe, at first, that using a tool like the Internet can actually change the way his brain works and functions, citing specific references to the text to support your answers. What factors, events, or conversations change Carr's mind on this topic?
Essay Topic 3
According to Carr, why do so many people not only welcome, but seek out, interruptions when they use the Internet? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
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