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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 Five, which publication does Carr cite as once being known for publishing long-form pieces by journalists like Hunter S. Thompson?
2. What is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?
3. What kinds of problems did Google run into when it tried to begin digitizing the world's books?
4. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr say about the lives of Internet companies?
5. Who is the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?
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. What did Patrician Greenfield's 2009 Science article describe in terms of the skills people acquire from Internet use?
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 factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?
8. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?
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. 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
Carr writes that "every technology is an expression of human will" (44). Write an essay explaining your interpretation of Carr's meaning with this phrase. How does it relate to his views on computers and the Internet?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay exploring how Carr thinks the rise of eReaders and eBooks will change, or even possibly eliminate, people's experiences of deep reading.
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