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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 of the following terms did Jeffrey Schwartz of UCLA coin?
2. Who did Gutenberg secure funding for his printing press from?
3. How did Francis Bacon say that Gutenberg's press affected the globe?
4. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?
5. According to Carr, language itself is NOT which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?
2. What invention did Lee de Forest create, and what technological advances did it allow for?
3. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
4. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?
5. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?
6. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?
7. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
8. What does Carr think is the relationship between a medium and the content conveyed through that medium?
9. 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?
10. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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, why do so many people not only welcome, but seek out, interruptions when they use the Internet? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
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