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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. What was Google's ambitious social networking site that launched at the end of 2009?
2. What are the tiny jumps people's eye movements make as they read, as discovered by Louis Emilie Javal in 1879?
3. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?
4. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?
5. What does the novelist Corey Doctorow say happens whenever we turn on our computers in Chapter Five?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?
2. 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?
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 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 Eight, how did Frederick Winslow Taylor's methods increase productivity in the Midvale Steel Plant in Philadelphia in the late 1800s?
7. What is the Flynn effect?
8. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest long-term paradox of the way human attention works when using the Internet?
9. What did one of Google's co-founders, Larry Page, base Google's search function on originally?
10. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine as saying would be the death of books in 1831?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay explaining Carr's views on how and why the Internet, and people's wide use of the Internet, is fundamentally changing public libraries in the United States.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the meaning of the term "switching costs," and explain how they relate to the act of surfing the Internet.
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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