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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." through Chapter 8, "Bringing the News".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," why is "foreward" spelled with an "e" instead of as we usually see it, "forward"?
(a) The spelling "foreward" is a British spelling, like "flavour," and is therefore an accepted alternate spelling.
(b) Without the "e," the word means a direction; with the "e," it means a piece of writing that comes ahead of another.
(c) Foster is using an unconventional spelling to draw attention to the idea "fore," which means "ahead."
(d) This is a proofreading error in the text.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what does Foster mean when he uses the word "dichotomy"?
(a) Something relatively unknown.
(b) A division between opposite things.
(c) The study of social policy.
(d) A narrative told in the order in which events really happened.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster uses the Latin expression in media res. What does this expression mean?
(a) In strict chronological order.
(b) In the form of a circle.
(c) In the middle of things.
(d) In narrative form.

4. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what is a piece of information that Foster says we can infer from the notes?
(a) Potential biases.
(b) The author's education.
(c) The author's purpose.
(d) The intended audience.

5. The section of this book called "The Books in the Book" is what part of the book?
(a) A foreward.
(b) The introduction.
(c) An appendix.
(d) A preface.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say is true about quotes attributed to anonymous sources?

3. Based on Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," how would Foster sum up the place of newspapers in today's world?

4. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," Foster talks about the change in value over time of a reporter's eyewitness testimony. What does Foster call this change in value?

5. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster maintains that types of newspaper writing like advice columns and human interest stories exist for what reason?

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