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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter 13,"On the Stump" through Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," what does Foster say is responsible for Didion's characteristic style?
(a) Gender.
(b) Politics.
(c) Education.
(d) Drugs.

2. Whose Apologia Pro Vita Sua is discussed in Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside"?
(a) Augustine of Hippo.
(b) Charles Kingsley.
(c) John Henry, Cardinal Newman.
(d) The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

3. In Chapter 8, "Bringing the News," Foster maintains that types of newspaper writing like advice columns and human interest stories exist for what reason?
(a) To fill up space not needed for daily news.
(b) Because they are traditional.
(c) To sell newspaper advertising.
(d) Because readers can not live without them.

4. In Chapter 11, "Life from the Inside," Foster discusses the use of parallelism. He is discussing what technique?
(a) The repetition of grammatical structures.
(b) The use of tone that mimics the subject under discussion.
(c) The use of multiple, similar examples.
(d) The exact repetition of words and phrases.

5. In Chapter 15, "Reading Internet Sources," Foster cites Wikipedia as the source of his information about the development of the internet. What might we reasonably call his use of Wikipedia as a source?
(a) Scholarly.
(b) Careless.
(c) Ironic.
(d) Engaging.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 7, "All in How You Look at Things," what does Foster cite as one of the main reasons that Americans have historically trusted the news media?

3. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," what does Foster call the "second draft of history"?

4. "Flu cases are 100% higher this year" is an example of what problematic use of data discussed by Foster in "Interrogating the Text"?

5. In Chapter 6, "Source Code," what does Foster call the "gold standard" of sources (63)?

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