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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster tell us begins Ben Franklin's autobiography?
(a) Excerpts from a speech Franklin gave while serving as Ambassador to France.
(b) The dramatic moment when the Declaration is signed.
(c) A description of Franklin's childhood.
(d) A letter to his son.

2. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which author does Foster say is at the opposite "pole" of New Journalism from Hunter S. Thompson?
(a) Joan Didion.
(b) Truman Capote.
(c) Raoul Duke.
(d) Tom Wolfe.

3. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that the outsider exposé has what advantage over the insider exposé?
(a) Immediacy.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Accuracy.
(d) Objectivity.

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster points out that Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me begins similarly to which other work?
(a) The Year of Magical Thinking.
(b) Dreams from My Father.
(c) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
(d) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.

5. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that Omarosa "uses her first name mononymously" (188). What does this mean about her use of her first name?
(a) She uses a nickname as her first name, but it is not her legal first name.
(b) She uses it alone, as a one-word name, without her last name.
(c) She uses her last (family) name as her first (personal) name.
(d) She uses it for professional work, but it is not her real first name.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which work does Foster say is likely the first example of New Journalism?

2. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," which claim does Foster make about thesis statements?

3. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what advantage does Foster say elapsed time gives to historical accounts?

4. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," which work does Foster say that Comey's book A Higher Loyalty is similar to?

5. According to Foster in Chapter 9, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is an example of what type of nonfiction?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year," what difference does Foster explain between primary and secondary sources?

2. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what criticism does Foster level at Fox News?

3. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster propose as a solution to inaccuracies on the web?

4. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what does Foster admire about the writing of John McPhee?

5. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what characteristics does Foster say the thesis of a strong essay will have?

6. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what two main types of subjective nonfiction does Foster define, and what four categories does he break these main types into?

7. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what are the three categories that Foster says outsider exposés fall into, and why does he say that they are more reliable than insider's writings?

8. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster say is problematic about the internet and web?

9. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what does Foster list as the three criteria of Ezra Pound's criticism?

10. Explain why, in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster says that the narrators of nonfiction can be just as unreliable as the narrators of fiction.

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