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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 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," how does Foster define "specialty journalism"?
(a) Feature writing.
(b) Editorial writing.
(c) Forms of journalism devoted to a single subject area.
(d) The newspaper sports section.
2. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that source material should be "apt." He means that source material should be what?
(a) Contextualized through editorial comments.
(b) Clearly attributed.
(c) Authoritative.
(d) Logically related to the arguments being advanced.
3. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what document does Foster call the "ultimate political expression of [the] Enlightenment insistence on the individual" (146)?
(a) The Declaration of Independence.
(b) A Room of One's Own.
(c) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(d) Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
4. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what type of writing does Foster say relies heavily on eyewitness testimony?
(a) Journalism.
(b) Science.
(c) Op-eds.
(d) History.
5. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what are the "four Ps" that Foster discusses?
(a) Purpose, paraphrase, platform, and paragraph.
(b) Purpose, proposal, program, and plan.
(c) Problem, proposal, program, and plan.
(d) Problem, promise, program, and platform.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what does Foster call the "gold standard" of sources (63)?
2. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that a look at social media reveals what about Americans of all political persuasions?
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 "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that he himself tends to "eschew" notes. He is saying what about his use of notes?
5. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that Omarosa "uses her first name mononymously" (188). What does this mean about her use of her first name?
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