Read “In Defense of Multitasking” and answer the following questions. Then “submit” your work.
1. Summary Summarize Silverman’s reasons for defending multitasking.
2. Analogy Explain Silverman’s analogy about computers. What is he trying to show with it?
3. Comparison What message does Silverman convey by discussing his father in the next-to-last paragraph?
4. Vocabulary Explain the meaning of each of the following words as it is used in the reading: discredited (para. 1), unitasking (2), concurrently (4), ponderable (4), and lest (4).