One of the Canvas news stories featured a story about a woman in India.    What happened to Chandni Begum?  What did the dowry system have to do with this tragedy? What is a dowry and how does this practice lead to violence?

An “oxymoron” is a contradiction – two words that seemingly contradict each other. What is the oxymoron in paragraph 2?  Why is it an oxymoron? (1 pt)

Find “cursory reading” in paragraph 5: What causes “cursory reading”? (0.5 pt)

What is the main idea of the article?  (2 pts: 1 point for the understanding of the main idea + 1 point for its articulation)

What is the main idea of the article?  (2 pts: 1 point for the understanding of the main idea + 1 point for its articulation)

What does “immersion” mean in paragraph 4? (0.5 pt)

In paragraph 6, the author says, “… the medium matters.” What media is he referring to (0.5) and why does it matter?  (0.5 pt)

What does “immersion” mean in paragraph 4? (0.5 pt)

What does the author mean when he says in the last sentence in the last paragraph “… we’re kidding ourselves and we’re cheating our kids”? (1 pt)

According to Carr, how is reading a book different from reading on a computer screen? (1 pt)