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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Chapter 9, "Living the News" through Chapter 12, "That Is So Last Year".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what are the "four Ps" that Foster discusses?
(a) Purpose, proposal, program, and plan.
(b) Purpose, paraphrase, platform, and paragraph.
(c) Problem, promise, program, and platform.
(d) Problem, proposal, program, and plan.

2. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," says that political cartoons and punditry are examples of what type of nonfiction?
(a) Opinion.
(b) Immersive journalism.
(c) News features.
(d) Op-ed.

3. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say about offering a source the chance to correct themselves if they claim that they misspoke?
(a) This creates inaccuracies.
(b) This in unethical.
(c) This can make a story stronger.
(d) This is part of the fair treatment of sources.

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) All the President's Men is a work of nonfiction.
(b) Woodward and Bernstein used too many anonymous sources.
(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 6, "Source Code," what does Foster call the "gold standard" of sources (63)?
(a) Professional expertise.
(b) Statistics.
(c) Eyewitness testimony.
(d) Expert sources.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Foster in Chapter 9, "Living the News," what is McPhee's purpose in comparing geological change over time to a road trip?

2. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," what aspect of Renaissance scholarship does Foster say the essay rebels against?

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

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster says that rules are determined by content, not codex. What does this mean?

5. What is being discussed in Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," when Foster says that the "form and tone of the essay must fit the writer like a suit" (144)?

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