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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. When did the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing kill himself?
2. Who wrote the book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man?
3. What skill was Socrates most well-known for?
4. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
5. In Chapter Four, who does Carr claim were the first people to use a specialized medium for writing?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?
2. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?
3. 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?
4. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?
5. How does Carr describe intellectual technologies?
6. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
7. How does Carr describe Friedrich Nietzsche's feelings towards his first typewriter?
8. When scientists first discovered how adaptable, or "plastic" the brain was, how did the field of neuroscience receive this revelation?
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. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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.
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