Question

Multiple Choice: According to some experts, why are teenagers drawn to the Internet?

A. It helps them avoid awkward social interactions.
B. It allows them to take on different, more appealing personas.
C. It gives them opportunities to strengthen their technological skills.
D. It aids them in expanding their personal and professional networks.
Multiple Choice: Which quotation from the text best supports the answer to question 4?

A. "People who communicated with disembodied strangers online... were nonetheless seduced by the novelty of the new medium." (Paragraph 8)
B. "No group has embraced this socially impoverishing trade-off more enthusiastically than adolescents" (Paragraph 9)
C. "children see the Net as a transformational device that lets them discard quotidian identities for more glamorous ones" (Paragraph 10)
D. "Marcus responded that he found books 'boring,' leaving us to conclude that he had learned all he needed to know from his family's big-screen TV." (Paragraph 10)

Answer 1

For the first question regarding why teenagers are drawn to the Internet, the best answer is:

**B. It allows them to take on different, more appealing personas.**

For the second question, the quotation that best supports this answer is:

**C. "children see the Net as a transformational device that lets them discard quotidian identities for more glamorous ones" (Paragraph 10).**

This statement directly relates to the idea of teenagers using the Internet to assume different identities.