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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 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?
(a) The economy of information.
(b) The transfer of source validity.
(c) The decline of presence.
(d) The price of detail.

2. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what does Foster call the "gold standard" of sources (63)?
(a) Expert sources.
(b) Professional expertise.
(c) Statistics.
(d) Eyewitness testimony.

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

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster tells us that changing the structure of a story changes its what?
(a) Topic.
(b) Genre.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Length.

5. 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 boring and mean-spirited.
(b) It is insightful but wordy.
(c) It is clever and concise.
(d) It is unoriginal and unimportant.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what kind of person does Foster say is likely to be biased?

2. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what does Foster say is an advantage of using data as evidence?

3. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what part of a text does Foster say is "under-read"? (39).

4. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what is the only form of nonfiction that is not argumentative?

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

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