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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 Eight, what does Carr say about the lives of Internet companies?
2. What is the title of Maggie Jackson's book about multitasking?
3. What book of Steven Johnson's does Carr cite in Chapter Seven?
4. What does New York University professor Clay Shirkey suggest is overrated in Chapter Six?
5. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite Alphonse de Lamartine as predicting in 1831?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the positives and negatives of skimming while reading?
3. What did one of Google's co-founders, Larry Page, base Google's search function on originally?
4. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?
5. 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?
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. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?
8. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?
9. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?
10. What did Patrician Greenfield's 2009 Science article describe in terms of the skills people acquire from Internet use?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Nicholas Carr's early personal forays into using computers and adapting to new technologies. How do Carr's early experiences with new technologies predict his later interest, as manifested in his book The Shallows, in the links between technology and the brain?
Essay Topic 3
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.
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