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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. According to Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what are the sidebar discussions found in the book's back matter called?
(a) Callouts.
(b) Content notes.
(c) The appendix.
(d) The index.

2. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster maintains that types of newspaper writing like advice columns and human interest stories exist for what reason?
(a) To sell newspaper advertising.
(b) Because they are traditional.
(c) Because readers can not live without them.
(d) To fill up space not needed for daily news.

3. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster call the rules governing different forms of nonfiction?
(a) Laws.
(b) Syntax.
(c) Precepts.
(d) Grammar.

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

5. According to "The Building Blocks of Arguments," what are the "grounds" of a argument?
(a) Explanations of the relationship between facts and claims.
(b) The conclusions that an argument is based on.
(c) The backing of a rebuttal or qualification.
(d) Factual data and evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," which is the only type of nonfiction that Foster says doesn't need "rock-solid" sources (69)?

2. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster say distinguishes the prologue from a preface?

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

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster calls a certain kind of reader the "cognoscenti." What kind of a reader is her referring to?

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

(see the answer key)

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