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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 9, "Living the News" through Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," where does Foster say editorial content can usually be found in the newspaper?
(a) At the very end of the last section.
(b) In its own section.
(c) The last page or pages of the front section.
(d) Throughout most sections.

2. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what form does Foster say takes its name from the French term for reminiscence?
(a) Autobiography.
(b) Biography.
(c) Confessions.
(d) Memoir.

3. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," which is the only type of nonfiction that Foster says doesn't need "rock-solid" sources (69)?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Biography.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Reportage.

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster calls an expression a "bromide." What is he saying about this expression?
(a) It is clever and concise.
(b) It is unoriginal and unimportant.
(c) It is boring and mean-spirited.
(d) It is insightful but wordy.

5. According to Foster in Chapter 9, "Living the News," what is McPhee's purpose in comparing geological change over time to a road trip?
(a) He is demonstrating how creative a nonfiction writer can be.
(b) He is using humor to engage his audience.
(c) He is constructing a warrant to link claim to grounds.
(d) He is trying to make something unfamiliar easier to understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster say distinguishes the prologue from a preface?

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say beginning writers often get too caught up in?

3. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what advice does Foster give about the copyright page?

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Whome does Foster say is "our greatest living thinker about writing nonfiction" (81)?

5. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which author does Foster say is at the opposite "pole" of New Journalism from Hunter S. Thompson?

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