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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 8, "Bringing the News," Foster makes the point that during the Nassar scandal, the Lansing State Journal did what?
(a) Initially helped Michigan State University cover up the story but later pivoted to full coverage.
(b) Devoted its resources fully to the story and stuck with it over a long period of time.
(c) Covered the scandal primarily as a sports story.
(d) Covered the breaking news and then allowed local magazines to take over coverage.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what are the "four Ps" that Foster discusses?
(a) Problem, promise, program, and platform.
(b) Problem, proposal, program, and plan.
(c) Purpose, proposal, program, and plan.
(d) Purpose, paraphrase, platform, and paragraph.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Whome does Foster say is "our greatest living thinker about writing nonfiction" (81)?
(a) Michael Pollan.
(b) John McPhee.
(c) Bob Woodward.
(d) Malcolm Gladwell.

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," how does Foster define "specialty journalism"?
(a) Feature writing.
(b) Editorial writing.
(c) The newspaper sports section.
(d) Forms of journalism devoted to a single subject area.

5. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what are the "grounds" of a argument?
(a) The backing of a rebuttal or qualification.
(b) Explanations of the relationship between facts and claims.
(c) The conclusions that an argument is based on.
(d) Factual data and evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster tells us that changing the structure of a story changes its what?

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 6, "Source Code," what consequence does Foster say the rise of the internet has had?

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster notes that the expectation for a writer to be engaging does not apply to which types of writing?

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," Foster uses the word "etymologically" to describe what?

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