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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," how does Foster define "specialty journalism"?
(a) Editorial writing.
(b) Feature writing.
(c) Forms of journalism devoted to a single subject area.
(d) The newspaper sports section.

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

3. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is true of the sports section?
(a) It excludes features.
(b) It contains every type of writing found in a newspaper.
(c) Its box scores are an example of soft news.
(d) It contains primarily editorial columns.

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is the difference between "hard news" and "soft news"?
(a) Hard news is fact-focused, basic news gathering; soft news is generally lengthier and less objective.
(b) Hard news is focused on statistics and data; soft news is focused on investigations and exposés.
(c) Hard news is truth-focused; soft news permits some inaccuracy.
(d) Hard news is focused on difficult truths; soft news is about making the reader feel good.

5. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster uses as examples two books that have the same subject matter--Fear, and Fire and Fury. What subject matter do these books have in common?
(a) World War II.
(b) Wilderness exploration.
(c) Watergate.
(d) The Trump White House.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," where does Foster suggest writers should gather information about historical figures?

2. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses the use of parallelism. He is discussing what technique?

3. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what purpose do warrants serve?

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call works that people write about their own experiences with illness and dying?

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," why is "foreward" spelled with an "e" instead of as we usually see it, "forward"?

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