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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. Which former Rhodes Scholar and former student body president at Florida State University told Carr he does not read books any longer?
2. What did the psychologist Vaughan Bell saw the ability to focus on a single task represents in the history of psychological development?
3. In what year was the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man published?
4. How did much of the early evidence of neuroplasticity come about?
5. Where was Johannes Gutenberg born?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
2. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?
3. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?
4. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?
5. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?
6. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
7. How does Carr describe the characteristics of a so-called technological determinist?
8. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
9. When scientists first discovered how adaptable, or "plastic" the brain was, how did the field of neuroscience receive this revelation?
10. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Nicholas Carr's early personal forays into using computers and adapting to new technologies. How do Carr's early experiences with new technologies predict his later interest, as manifested in his book The Shallows, in the links between technology and the brain?
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
What is the relationship between Internet use and human memory, according to Carr? Why are our Internet browsing habits so bad for our memories in Carr's opinion? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
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