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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 12, "Life from the Inside," why does Foster think Ambrose chose Merriwether Lewis's perspective for his history Undaunted Courage?
(a) There are more primary sources about Lewis.
(b) Lewis is a more interesting figure.
(c) It was Lewis that President Lincoln asked to undertake the journey.
(d) Many histories have already covered William Clark's perspective.

2. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses primary and secondary sources. Which of the following would be a secondary source about World War Two?
(a) A collection of English WWII military maps and charts discovered many years after the war.
(b) An editorial in the New York Times opposing American involvement in the war.
(c) A historical account in a 2020 textbook about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
(d) A 1942 letter from an overseas American soldier to his parents.

3. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," Foster says that which type of nonfiction is usually better off starting at the beginning chronologically?
(a) Biography.
(b) History.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Reportage.

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster points out that Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me begins similarly to which other work?
(a) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.
(b) Dreams from My Father.
(c) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.
(d) The Year of Magical Thinking.

5. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," Foster introduces the term "structural design," saying that it is similar to which term related to fiction?
(a) Plot structure.
(b) Story plan.
(c) Narrative strategy.
(d) Storyboard.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster say is the point of having a variety of media sources?

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

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

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster tell us begins Ben Franklin's autobiography?

5. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," how does Foster apply the idea of "free indirect speech" to New Journalism?

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