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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 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster call inaccurate information?
(a) Dark energy.
(b) Cyber-lies.
(c) Hypertext.
(d) Dark information.

2. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," what does Foster call the "fatal flaw" of the internet?
(a) A lack of quality control.
(b) Too many editors.
(c) The cost of connecting to it.
(d) The hierarchy of gatekeepers.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say the term "Fake News" originally referred to?
(a) News the reader dislikes.
(b) Online sources of maliciously false news.
(c) Tabloid content.
(d) News that powerful politicians dislike.

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

5. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what does Foster say is an advantage of using data as evidence?
(a) The reader often isn't aware of whether the data is real or not.
(b) It exists independent of our will and beliefs.
(c) It can be manipulated to make it say what the author wants it to say.
(d) It is one of the only sources that people still believe in.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what document does Foster call the "ultimate political expression of [the] Enlightenment insistence on the individual" (146)?

2. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," one of the main points that Foster wants to make about All the President's Men is what?

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say is the purpose of the academic five-paragraph essay?

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

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

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