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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 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," why does Foster introduce the example of Malcolm Gladwell?
(a) To show how a clever writer can overcome public skepticism.
(b) To contrast with the more rigorous writing of Neil deGrasse Tyson.
(c) To provide an example of amateur profiling.
(d) To illustrate the idea of a science writer who has developed a "brand" for his writing.

2. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that he himself tends to "eschew" notes. He is saying what about his use of notes?
(a) He backs up his notes with a Works Cited section.
(b) His notes are sometimes disorganized.
(c) He does not use them.
(d) He tends to provide too many.

3. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what document does Foster call the "ultimate political expression of [the] Enlightenment insistence on the individual" (146)?
(a) Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
(b) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(c) The Declaration of Independence.
(d) A Room of One's Own.

4. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," what reason does Foster give for journalists generally being proved correct despite public mistrust?
(a) Professionalism.
(b) Stubbornness.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Strategy.

5. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call the "most famous" African American autobiography (171)?
(a) Dreams from My Father.
(b) The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
(c) Between the World and Me.
(d) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster says that All the President's Men is sui generis. He is saying that this book is what?

2. Based on Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," what would Foster call a journalist writing about a biologist and her discoveries?

3. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster tell us begins Ben Franklin's autobiography?

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say the term "Fake News" originally referred to?

5. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that Fire and Fury was "incendiary" (189). He is comparing the book to what?

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