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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 6, "Source Code," what does Foster say about the proliferation of online sources?
(a) They are often carefully sourced.
(b) They offer marginalized voices a chance to be heard.
(c) They make everything seem like nonsense.
(d) They democratize media.

2. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what part of a text does Foster say is "under-read"? (39).
(a) Introductions.
(b) Titles.
(c) The table of contents.
(d) The index.

3. 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?
(a) Biography.
(b) Reportage.
(c) History.
(d) Philosophy.

4. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," one of the main points that Foster wants to make about All the President's Men is what?
(a) Woodward and Bernstein faced serious obstacles in investigating the Watergate story.
(b) It is unusual for people to write about themselves in the third person.
(c) All the President's Men is a work of nonfiction.
(d) Woodward and Bernstein used too many anonymous sources.

5. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," one of the main points that Foster wants to make about All the President's Men is that it is a kind of writing he calls what?
(a) Reportage.
(b) Investigative journalism.
(c) Meta-journalism.
(d) Exposé.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say the term "Fake News" originally referred to?

3. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say about disclaimers like "I don't dislike soccer" (52)?

4. According to Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," at what level are most news stories written?

5. The section of this book called "What's Going on Around Here?" is what part of the book?

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