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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 11, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster call works that people write about their own experiences with illness and dying?
(a) Death memoir.
(b) Misadventure memoir.
(c) Survival autobiography.
(d) Funeral autobiography.

2. The section of this book called "The Books in the Book" is what part of the book?
(a) A foreward.
(b) The introduction.
(c) An appendix.
(d) A preface.

3. In Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what is a piece of information that Foster says we can infer from the notes?
(a) The author's education.
(b) The intended audience.
(c) The author's purpose.
(d) Potential biases.

4. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what historical era does Foster tie New Journalism to?
(a) The Great Depression.
(b) World War Two.
(c) The counterculture movement of the 1960's.
(d) The "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980's.

5. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what does Foster mean when he uses the word "dichotomy"?
(a) The study of social policy.
(b) A division between opposite things.
(c) Something relatively unknown.
(d) A narrative told in the order in which events really happened.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, "Life from the Inside," what does Foster suggest that Ambrose loses by choosing to focus on Lewis?

2. In Chapter 5, "It May Just Be Me, But..." Foster says that a source's quote can be "emended" (55). What happens to an emended quote?

3. In Chapter 1, "The Structure of Nonfiction Information," what does Foster say the first job of the writer is, on page one?

4. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster say beginning writers often get too caught up in?

5. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," why is "foreward" spelled with an "e" instead of as we usually see it, "forward"?

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