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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 is Alan Turing best known for creating?
2. What device does Carr buy in 1990 that increases his ability to connect to the nascent Internet?
3. What does the Turning Test designed to measure?
4. In Chapter Three, what does Ong say that writing does for consciousness?
5. Which famous philosopher from the 1800s wrote an appreciative small piece about his love for the typewriter?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say research suggests about the relationship between the time people spend on the Net and the time they spend watching television?
2. In Chapter Three, what does Carr identify as the format of some of the earliest Sumerian writing that archaeologists and historians have uncovered?
3. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?
4. What does Carr say about the relationship between the so-called "intellectual ethic" of a technology and its inventor (45)?
5. How does Carr describe the beliefs of a technological instrumentalist?
6. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?
7. How did the neuroscientist Michael Merzenich prove the brain was more changeable than was previously thought with his experiments in the 1960s?
8. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?
9. What invention did Lee de Forest create, and what technological advances did it allow for?
10. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
When and how did scientists first begin to understand how much more "plastic," or adaptable, the brain was? How were the early works of these scientists received in the academic and medical fields at first? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text to support your answers.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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