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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 Seven, Carr argues that distractions cause greater impairment when the train of thought we are involved in is which of the following?
2. What mediums does Carr cite in Chapter Five as trying to become more web-like?
3. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?
4. Who is the managing director of Guardian News and Media that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?
5. What are the tiny jumps people's eye movements make as they read, as discovered by Louis Emilie Javal in 1879?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?
3. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the effects of email notifications on people's concentration when working online?
4. What factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?
5. In Chapter Eight, how did Frederick Winslow Taylor's methods increase productivity in the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s?
6. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?
7. 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?
8. In Chapter 7, what idea from Samuel Johnson does Carr end the chapter with?
9. What did Google's Eric Schmidt tell the Wall Street Journal is Google's main goal, and how long does he expect it to take to achieve that goal?
10. What did one of Google's co-founders, Larry Page, base Google's search function on originally?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How, and why, did society accept multitasking as a desirable way to work and to consume information? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.
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
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.
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