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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 the rise of silent reading change the architecture of libraries, according to Carr?
2. What does the researcher Nicole Speer say about the act of deep reading?
3. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
4. What do instrumentalists believe, according to Carr?
5. In Chapter Four, which of the following does Carr say became a prerequisite for intellectual achievement?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?
2. 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?
3. How does Carr claim the creation of clocks influenced civilization?
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. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?
6. How does Carr describe the characteristics of a so-called technological determinist?
7. What invention did Lee de Forest create, and what technological advances did it allow for?
8. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?
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 style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining Carr's views on how and why the Internet, and people's wide use of the Internet, is fundamentally changing public libraries in the United States.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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