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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 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what is the purpose of Foster's discussion of structure in Coming into the Country?
(a) To show how chronological structure can be adapted to a particular message.
(b) To demonstrate the limits of chronological structure.
(c) To show that cause and effect structure can be used for narrative.
(d) To demonstrate that theme is dependent on detail.

2. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," Foster says that the outsider exposé has what advantage over the insider exposé?
(a) Immediacy.
(b) Perspective.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Accuracy.

3. Where, according to Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," did the viral story about Pope Francis endorsing Donald Trump come from?
(a) A fringe news network in the United States.
(b) A young man in Romania.
(c) Donald Trump.
(d) Vladimir Putin.

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) Meaning.
(c) Length.
(d) Genre.

5. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that readers should beware of ad hominem arguments. What he means is that readers should be suspicious when writers do what?
(a) Appeal to emotion rather than to logic.
(b) Portray the opposition argument as much weaker than it actually is.
(c) Attack the people making arguments instead of the arguments themselves.
(d) Contend that because something is new it must be better or more correct.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The section of this book called "The Books in the Book" is what part of the book?

3. In Chapter 17, "The Criminal Element," Foster says that legislative "stasis" has resulted from bad-faith communication. What is the best definition of "stasis" in this context?

4. In Chapter 16, "Social (Media) Disease," what is the most likely purpose for Foster's claim that "viral" material on the web will "make you sick" (264)?

5. Whom does Foster name, in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," as the "inheritors" (164) of the legacy of Apologia Pro Vita Sua?

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