Examining the Reading

Read “In Defense of Multitasking” and answer the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

Question 20.28

1. Summary Summarize Silverman’s reasons for defending multitasking.

Question 20.29

2. Analogy Explain Silverman’s analogy about computers. What is he trying to show with it?

Question 20.30

3. Comparison What message does Silverman convey by discussing his father in the next-to-last paragraph?

Question 20.31

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).

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