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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. Who is Amazon's chief executive, mentioned by Carr in Chapter Six?
2. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?
3. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest paradox of using the Internet?
4. Who is the managing director of Guardian News and Media that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?
5. Who is the president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment that Carr mentions in Chapter Five?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?
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. In Chapter Seven, how did educators' hopes for the positive effects of students reading texts with hyperlinks work out?
4. What factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?
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. 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?
7. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?
8. In Chapter Six, what does Carr report might happen in the future with the incorporation of social media into e-Books?
9. What kinds of problems did Google's effort to digitize all the books ever printed run into?
10. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the effects of email notifications on people's concentration when working online?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
According to Carr, what are some of the reasons that technologies that restructure language have the most significant impacts on our thought processes? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.
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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