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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. How does Carr say the Net differs most from much of the mass media it has displaced?

2. How does Carr himself contribute to Internet content by the mid-2000s?

3. Which university was at the forefront of computer programming and technological advances in the late 1970s, according to Carr?

4. According to Carr, language itself is NOT which of the following?

5. Which was one of the first computers Carr ever bought for his own personal use?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to Carr, what is one way in which a reader can connect deeply with a book he is reading?

2. In Chapter Five, what is the most important difference Carr identifies between the Net and most of the mass media it replaces, like television?

3. In Chapter One, how does Joe O'Shea feel about his decision to stop reading books in favor of the shorter-form content of the Internet?

4. What style of reading does author David Levy describe in Chapter Four that Carr thinks is useful for learning?

5. According to Carr, how did the first maps change society?

6. When scientists first discovered how adaptable, or "plastic" the brain was, how did the field of neuroscience receive this revelation?

7. What is the central message from Marshall McLuhan's 1964 book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, according to Carr?

8. How does attending Dartmouth College in the 1970s affect Carr's attitudes towards computers?

9. How did Johannes Gutenberg change the path of human history, according to Carr?

10. 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?

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

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 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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