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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) Uplifting.
(b) Challenging.
(c) Unique.
(d) Revealing.
2. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what kind of person does Foster say is likely to be biased?
(a) Everyone.
(b) Uneducated people.
(c) Older people.
(d) Republicans.
3. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is true of the sports section?
(a) It contains primarily editorial columns.
(b) It contains every type of writing found in a newspaper.
(c) Its box scores are an example of soft news.
(d) It excludes features.
4. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what are the "grounds" of a argument?
(a) Factual data and evidence.
(b) The conclusions that an argument is based on.
(c) Explanations of the relationship between facts and claims.
(d) The backing of a rebuttal or qualification.
5. The section of this book called "What's Going on Around Here?" is what part of the book?
(a) A foreward.
(b) The introduction.
(c) An appendix.
(d) A preface.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster discusses Pollan's How to Change Your Mind as an example of what?
2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Whome does Foster say is "our greatest living thinker about writing nonfiction" (81)?
3. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," how does Foster define "specialty journalism"?
4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster makes what point about newspaper articles?
5. Which form discussed in Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," is generally not written by the author of the main piece of writing?
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