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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 9, "Living the News," Foster calls Fear and Loathing a roman à clef. What is he saying about this book?
(a) It is a work that translates a novel in another language into English.
(b) It is an autobiographical book about journalism.
(c) It is a work of fiction that parodies a work of journalism.
(d) It is a book of nonfiction thinly disguised as fiction.

2. According to Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," at what level are most news stories written?
(a) The fourth to sixth grade levels.
(b) The ninth to eleventh grade levels.
(c) The college sophomore level.
(d) The twelfth grade level.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what is the purpose of Foster's discussion of structure in Coming into the Country?
(a) To demonstrate that theme is dependent on detail.
(b) To show how chronological structure can be adapted to a particular message.
(c) To show that cause and effect structure can be used for narrative.
(d) To demonstrate the limits of chronological structure.

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

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," what does Foster say distinguishes the prologue from a preface?
(a) The word prologue is generally only used with narratives.
(b) The word preface is generally only used with narratives.
(c) The word prologue is generally only used for fiction.
(d) The word preface is generally only used for fiction.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what kind of person does Foster say is likely to be biased?

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

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 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster tells us that changing the structure of a story changes its what?

5. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," one of the main points that Foster wants to make about All the President's Men is that it is a kind of writing he calls what?

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