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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 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster give as the basic meaning of "preface," "prologue," and "foreward"?
(a) Ahead of.
(b) In front.
(c) First word.
(d) Leading.

2. 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) Challenging.
(b) Uplifting.
(c) Unique.
(d) Revealing.

3. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," how does Foster define "specialty journalism"?
(a) Forms of journalism devoted to a single subject area.
(b) Editorial writing.
(c) The newspaper sports section.
(d) Feature writing.

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 used too many anonymous sources.
(b) All the President's Men is a work of nonfiction.
(c) It is unusual for people to write about themselves in the third person.
(d) Woodward and Bernstein faced serious obstacles in investigating the Watergate story.

5. 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) Reporters are not usually asked to verify information obtained in a quote, but they are supposed to double-check information given "on background."
(b) The only difference is actually whether the information is quoted or paraphrased.
(c) Background sources tend to be highly-placed officials, while anonymous sources tend to be leakers.
(d) Quoted anonymous sources are more likely to be accurate than information obtained "on background."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say is true about quotes attributed to anonymous sources?

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster cite as one of the main reasons that Americans have historically trusted the news media?

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

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster calls an expression a "bromide." What is he saying about this expression?

5. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is true of the sports section?

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