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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 are the tiny jumps people's eye movements make as they read, as discovered by Louis Emilie Javal in 1879?
2. What was an early version of Google called in 1996?
3. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?
4. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest paradox of using the Internet?
5. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Six, what was the experience of Christine Rosen, the fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., when she read an e-copy of Nicholas Nickleby?
2. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?
3. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?
6. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?
7. In Chapter Eight, how did Frederick Winslow Taylor's methods increase productivity in the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s?
8. What is the Flynn effect?
9. In Chapter Five, how does Carr point out that the architecture of the Bronx Library Center has changed to reflect the supremacy of the Internet?
10. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Carr's view, what is the "intellectual ethic" of a technology (45)? Why are a given technology's creators usually blind to the technology's so-called "intellectual ethic"?
Essay Topic 2
In Carr's estimation, how are maps and clocks similar to computers in their impacts on society? How are they different from computers in the impacts on society? Write an essay explaining your answers.
Essay Topic 3
Why do you think Carr chooses to both begin and end the book The Shallows with references to the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and particularly with references to the computer in the film, HAL? What do you think HAL represents to Carr? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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