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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. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?

2. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?

3. In Chapter Five, which publication does Carr cite as once being known for publishing long-form pieces by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson?

4. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

5. Which author wrote a 1997 history of the pursuit of artificial intelligence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Flynn effect?

2. In Chapter Seven, about how long did researcher Gary Small find that it took for people's brains to become rewired after using the Internet?

3. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the effects of email notifications on people's concentration when working online?

4. In Chapter Six, Carr cites the work of some academics, including New York University's Clay Shirkey, as saying that deep reading was always overrated. Why did Shirkey and others think that reading long literary novels was overrated?

5. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest long-term paradox of the way human attention works when using the Internet?

6. Who did Larry Page recruit to help him build what became Google's original search engine, and why did he choose this person?

7. What kinds of problems did Google's effort to digitize all the books ever printed run into?

8. What factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?

9. In Chapter Six, what does Carr report might happen in the future with the incorporation of social media into e-Books?

10. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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 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.

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