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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 was the researcher known for coining the phrase and meaning of the Flynn effect?

2. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say is Colorado's oldest newspaper?

3. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?

4. Which former editor of the New York Times Book Review has become a Kindle enthusiast, according to Carr in Chapter Six?

5. Which book did Christine Rosen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center first try to read on a Kindle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of problems did Google's effort to digitize all the books ever printed run into?

2. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest long-term paradox of the way human attention works when using the Internet?

3. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?

4. 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?

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

6. What factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?

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

8. 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?

9. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?

10. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?

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

How, and why, did society accept multitasking as a desirable way to work and to consume information? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.

Essay Topic 3

According to Carr, why do so many people not only welcome, but seek out, interruptions when they use the Internet? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your arguments.

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