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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 did Marissa Mayer call Google's moon shot?
2. What does Carr say, in Chapter Eight, that Larry Page has always viewed Google as an embryonic form of?
3. Who was the researcher known for coining the phrase and meaning of the Flynn effect?
4. What does Carr say is Johnson's primary kind of knowledge in the end of Chapter Seven?
5. Which major publisher does Carr mention in Chapter Six that began publishing e-novels with videos embedded in them?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?
2. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr think about the positives and negatives of skimming while reading?
3. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue is the main drawback of hyperlinks for a reader of a web document?
4. What is the Flynn effect?
5. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?
6. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?
7. 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?
8. What factors does the UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield attribute the Flynn effect to?
9. In Chapter 7, what idea from Samuel Johnson does Carr end the chapter with?
10. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?
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
Why is Google's business model so dependent on its ability to feed users information and web content so quickly and efficiently? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
What does Carr mean when he writes that the reader, when engaged in deep, immersive reading, "becomes" the book (74)? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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