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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. About how many bibles did Gutenberg print before running out of money?
2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr say thinking is governed by in a purely oral culture?
3. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?
4. What did Lee de Forest invent?
5. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Carr describe Friedrich Nietzsche's feelings towards his first typewriter?
2. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?
3. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?
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. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
6. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?
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 describe intellectual technologies?
9. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?
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
According to Carr, what are some of the reasons that technologies that restructure language have the most significant impacts on our thought processes? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.
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
Carr argues that books and book reading as people have know them throughout history are in their "cultural twilight" (110). Write an essay explaining what Carr means by this and explore your own opinions on the future of books and book reading.
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