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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease" through "Conclusion".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say is usually the difference between quoted anonymous sources and sources speaking "on background"?
(a) Background sources tend to be highly-placed officials, while anonymous sources tend to be leakers.
(b) The only difference is actually whether the information is quoted or paraphrased.
(c) Quoted anonymous sources are more likely to be accurate than information obtained "on background."
(d) Reporters are not usually asked to verify information obtained in a quote, but they are supposed to double-check information given "on background."

2. How, in Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," does Foster define "bot"?
(a) A small piece of data housed on a user's computer by a website.
(b) An automated follower on social media.
(c) Software that performs a simple task.
(d) A troll or hacker working for a government or corporation.

3. In Chapter 17, "The Criminal Element," Foster advises that readers use the internet to do what?
(a) Learn more about fallacies.
(b) Check credentials.
(c) Seek opposing viewpoints.
(d) Read the original study that data is taken from.

4. In Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," what does Foster blame for the ease with which social media can be manipulated?
(a) Algorithms.
(b) Social media executives.
(c) Poorly informed users.
(d) People's desire to be popular.

5. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses primary and secondary sources. Which of the following would be a secondary source about World War Two?
(a) An editorial in the New York Times opposing American involvement in the war.
(b) A 1942 letter from an overseas American soldier to his parents.
(c) A collection of English WWII military maps and charts discovered many years after the war.
(d) A historical account in a 2020 textbook about the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster says that which type of nonfiction is usually better off starting at the beginning chronologically?

2. In the "Conclusion," what does Foster blame for readers' passive attitude toward nonfiction?

3. In Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," what does Foster say is the reason social media encourages people to have wide networks of "friends"?

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster tell us begins Ben Franklin's autobiography?

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?

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