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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 does New York University professor Clay Shirkey suggest is overrated in Chapter Six?

2. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest paradox of using the Internet?

3. What is Google's Silicon Valley headquarters called?

4. What is one of the newest branches of the New York Public Library, according to Carr in Chapter Five?

5. In Chapter Five, what does Carr say we do not think of libraries as, even though they are?

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 Six, what does Carr cite French poet and politician Alphonse de Lamartine as saying would be the death of books in 1831?

3. In Chapter Eight, what sentiment of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne's does Carr highlight?

4. What did Jakob Nielsen's 2006 study of the way people read web pages find?

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

6. In Chapter Six, what does Carr report might happen in the future with the incorporation of social media into e-Books?

7. What did one of Google's co-founders, Larry Page, base Google's search function on originally?

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

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

10. According to Carr, how has the Internet affected the business models of other forms of media?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Carr's estimation, how are maps and clocks similar to computers in their impacts on society? How are they different from computers in the impacts on society? Write an essay explaining 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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