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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 13,"On the Stump" through Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what does Foster say is the main difference between New Journalism and immersive journalism?
(a) Immersive journalists use many more techniques usually found in fiction.
(b) Immersive journalists do not try to draw attention to themselves.
(c) Immersive journalists are strictly objective.
(d) Immersive journalists want to be seen as clever, inventive writers.

2. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," what does Foster say that Wolff mostly wrote about before writing Fire and Fury?
(a) History.
(b) Celebrities.
(c) Travel.
(d) Food.

3. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say is true about quotes attributed to anonymous sources?
(a) These quotes are often just the reporter's interpretation of a source's meaning.
(b) These quotes are often made up.
(c) There is never a good reason to use a quote from an anonymous source.
(d) There are likely to be good reasons for the source to stay anonymous.

4. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," Foster cites Wikipedia as the source of his information about the development of the internet. What might we reasonably call his use of Wikipedia as a source?
(a) Engaging.
(b) Careless.
(c) Scholarly.
(d) Ironic.

5. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say beginning writers often get too caught up in?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Description.
(c) Narrative.
(d) Exposition.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster tells us that changing the structure of a story changes its what?

2. In "Interrogating the Text," where does Foster say the "three questions" originate?

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

4. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," Foster refers to ARPANET. What is ARPANET?

5. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what important characteristic of the essay does Foster point out?

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