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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," which authors does Foster point out as not engaged in New Journalism?
(a) Capote and Agee.
(b) Mailer and Didion.
(c) Woodward and Bernstein.
(d) Breslin and Talese.

2. 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 of fiction that parodies a work of journalism.
(b) It is a work that translates a novel in another language into English.
(c) It is a book of nonfiction thinly disguised as fiction.
(d) It is an autobiographical book about journalism.

3. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what advice does Foster give about the copyright page?
(a) This information is just a legal notice and most readers should just ignore it.
(b) This page contains important information about where the author got pieces of information used in the text.
(c) This page is optional and readers should not expect to find it in every book.
(d) When reading as a part of research, never leave this page without recording the information it contains.

4. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster suggest that Ambrose loses by choosing to focus on Lewis?
(a) Information about what happened after Lewis's death.
(b) The reader's trust.
(c) The chance to engage a wider audience of readers.
(d) A variety of perspectives.

5. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what advantage does Foster say contemporaneous accounts have?
(a) They allow the writer to consult sources from a variety of viewpoints.
(b) They allow the reader to understand the world as it is in the present.
(c) They offer a narrower--and therefore easier to understand--view of history.
(d) They offer a long view on historical events.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," Foster uses the word "etymologically" to describe what?

2. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." what does Foster say about offering equal space and analysis to opposing arguments?

3. In Chapter 10, "From the Inside Out," says that political cartoons and punditry are examples of what type of nonfiction?

4. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what does Foster say about the proliferation of online sources?

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

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