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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 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster tells us that changing the structure of a story changes its what?
(a) Genre.
(b) Topic.
(c) Length.
(d) Meaning.

2. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what does Foster say is the purpose of the "four Ps?"
(a) To explain the structural design of the work.
(b) To fill the reader in on important context.
(c) To establish the writer's credibility.
(d) To lay out the essentials of the work to follow.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster uses the Latin expression in media res. What does this expression mean?
(a) In narrative form.
(b) In the middle of things.
(c) In the form of a circle.
(d) In strict chronological order.

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster makes what point about newspaper articles?
(a) Almost all of them incorporate at least some cause and effect structure.
(b) They are often deviate from strict chronology in order to make a point.
(c) They often use a cause and effect structure.
(d) Almost all of them are written in strict chronological order.

5. 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 readers can not live without them.
(c) Because they are traditional.
(d) To fill up space not needed for daily news.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster give as the basic meaning of "preface," "prologue," and "foreward"?

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster discusses Pollan's How to Change Your Mind as an example of what?

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," why is "foreward" spelled with an "e" instead of as we usually see it, "forward"?

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