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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 that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?

2. What is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?

3. Which researcher carried out the first studies that showed people's brains changing in response to Internet use?

4. Fewer than one in ten page views extend beyond which of the following time frames, according to German researchers Carr cites in Chapter Seven?

5. What topic did Google founder Larry Page select for his dissertation at Stanford?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?

2. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?

3. What did Patrician Greenfield's 2009 Science article describe in terms of the skills people acquire from Internet use?

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

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. 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?

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

9. In Chapter Eight, how did Frederick Winslow Taylor's methods increase productivity in the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s?

10. 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?

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

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 3

What is the relationship between Internet use and human memory, according to Carr? Why are our Internet browsing habits so bad for our memories in Carr's opinion? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your conclusions.

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