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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 Six, what does Carr say that multitasking on a computer has made it commonplace for users to do?
2. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?
3. What is Google's Silicon Valley headquarters called?
4. How long did Eric Schmidt tell The Wall Street Journal in 2005 that it would take Google to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful?
5. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What is the Flynn effect?
3. In Chapter Six, what does Carr cite French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine as saying would be the death of books in 1831?
4. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?
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 Seven, what does Carr think about the effects of email notifications on people's concentration when working online?
7. What did Patrician Greenfield's 2009 Science article describe in terms of the skills people acquire from Internet use?
8. In Chapter 7, what idea from Samuel Johnson does Carr end the chapter with?
9. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?
10. In Chapter Eight, what does Carr refer to as the Internet's High Church, and why does he call it that?
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
Carr argues that books and book reading as people have know them throughout history are in their "cultural twilight" (110). Write an essay explaining what Carr means by this and explore your own opinions on the future of books and book reading.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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