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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 says that All the President's Men is sui generis. He is saying that this book is what?
(a) Revealing.
(b) Uplifting.
(c) Challenging.
(d) Unique.

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster cite as one of the main reasons that Americans have historically trusted the news media?
(a) The tendency of editors to insist on multiple sources.
(b) Journalists' willingness to admit mistakes.
(c) The strict editorial control of content.
(d) Journalists' willingness to admit bias.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster makes what point about newspaper articles?
(a) Almost all of them incorporate at least some cause and effect structure.
(b) They are often deviate from strict chronology in order to make a point.
(c) Almost all of them are written in strict chronological order.
(d) They often use a cause and effect structure.

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

5. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say the term "Fake News" originally referred to?
(a) News the reader dislikes.
(b) Tabloid content.
(c) Online sources of maliciously false news.
(d) News that powerful politicians dislike.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say is the purpose of the academic five-paragraph essay?

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

5. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster describes the Larry Nassar scandal as an illustration of what?

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