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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 was Google's ambitious social networking site that launched at the end of 2009?

2. What 1993 book of Neil Postman's does Carr reference in Chapter Eight?

3. In Chapter Five, what does Carr argue that hyperlinks do in a text?

4. According to Carr in Chapter Seven, which of the following forms the major bottleneck in our brains?

5. In Chapter Six, what does Carr say is one of the more popular of the new digital readers?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seven, what does Carr say is the greatest long-term paradox of the way human attention works when using the Internet?

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

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

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

5. In Chapter Five, how does Carr point out that the architecture of the Bronx Library Center has changed to reflect the supremacy of the Internet?

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

7. What does Marissa Mayer, then a high-level executive at Google, say of design on the web?

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

9. 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?

10. In Chapter 7, what idea from Samuel Johnson does Carr end the chapter with?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay explaining how Carr feels about the rise of social media platforms and of people's use of these platforms. Do you agree with Carr's opinions about social media?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring how Carr thinks the rise of eReaders and eBooks will change, or even possibly eliminate, people's experiences of deep reading.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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