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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. What kind of type did Johannes Gutenberg invent with the printing press?
2. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?
3. What is Alan Turing best known for creating?
4. Where did Lee de Forest grow up?
5. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?
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. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
3. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?
4. What invention did Lee de Forest create, and what technological advances did it allow for?
5. 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?
6. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the philosopher Socrates' fear that widespread reading would replace?
7. What movie does Carr reference in Chapter One, and what does he use the reference to illustrate?
8. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?
9. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
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
How does Carr use the Flynn effect and the data on I.Q. increases to support his arguments that the Internet has changed our brains and our societies in significant ways? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
When and how did scientists first begin to understand how much more "plastic," or adaptable, the brain was? How were the early works of these scientists received in the academic and medical fields at first? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.
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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