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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?
(a) Amazon's Kindle.
(b) Apple's iPad.
(c) Toshiba's tablet.
(d) Samsung's tablet.

2. What publisher brought a book out in 2009 that had been created with Microsoft's PowerPoint presentation software?
(a) Harper Books.
(b) O'Reilly Media.
(c) Random House.
(d) Penguin.

3. What is the name Google a play on?
(a) Googol.
(b) Googly eyes.
(c) Gazillion.
(d) Goggle box.

4. How does Carr report that the layout of the Bronx Library Center has recently changed in Chapter Five?
(a) At the center are the books, and the computers are at the margins.
(b) At the center are the people, and the computers and books are at the margins.
(c) The books and computers are both in the center.
(d) At the center are Internet-connected computers, and the print books have been pushed to the margins.

5. In Chapter Seven, Carr says that if working memory is the mind's scratch pad, then long-term memory is which of the following?
(a) Its safe.
(b) Its Dewey Decimal system.
(c) Its filing system.
(d) Its attic.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say a book retains over the computer as a device for reading?

2. What does Carr say that the Net is by design in Chapter Seven?

3. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is the one form of popular media that has been most resistant to the Net's influence?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

4. What did Patrician Greenfield's 2009 Science article describe in terms of the skills people acquire from Internet use?

5. Who did Larry Page recruit to help him build what became Google's original search engine, and why did he choose this person?

6. In Chapter Seven, how did educators' hopes for the positive effects of students reading texts with hyperlinks work out?

7. What is the Flynn effect?

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

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?

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