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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 do determinists believe, according to Carr?

2. How did most literate Greek and Romans consume literature in the earliest days of the written word, according to Carr in Chapter Four?

3. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?

4. What skill was Plato best known for?

5. According to Carr, language itself is NOT which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?

2. How does Carr describe the characteristics of a so-called technological determinist?

3. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?

4. 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?

5. In Chapter One, what activity does Carr propose heavy Internet use has diminished human capacity for?

6. In Chapter Five, how does Carr describe the British mathematician Alan Turing?

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 style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?

9. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?

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

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 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

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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