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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 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster notes that the expectation for a writer to be engaging does not apply to which types of writing?
(a) Technical.
(b) Academic.
(c) Political.
(d) Informational.

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say is the purpose of the academic five-paragraph essay?
(a) It is the preferred format for professional writing.
(b) It teaches students to organize their thoughts.
(c) It is the most that students are capable of before college.
(d) It is a flexible and useful format for anything a student might need to write about.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say beginning writers often get too caught up in?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Exposition.
(c) Description.
(d) Narrative.

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

5. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is the point of having a variety of media sources?
(a) Accuracy.
(b) Appealing to different readers.
(c) Time.
(d) Depth of coverage.

Short Answer 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?

2. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," how does Foster define "specialty journalism"?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what is a piece of information that Foster says we can infer from the notes?

5. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," where does Foster suggest writers should gather information about historical figures?

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