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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, what does Carr argue the Net commands with a far greater insistency than television or radio?

2. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr say about the lives of Internet companies?

3. According to Carr in Chapter Seven, which of the following forms the major bottleneck in our brains?

4. What is the name Google a play on?

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the positives and negatives of skimming while reading?

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

3. 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?

4. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?

5. 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?

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

7. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine as saying would be the death of books in 1831?

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

9. In Chapter 7, what idea from Samuel Johnson does Carr end the chapter with?

10. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?

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

Write an essay explaining how Carr feels about the rise of social media platforms and of people's use of these platforms. Do you agree with Carr's opinions about social media?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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