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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 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?
(a) Reportage.
(b) Investigative journalism.
(c) Meta-journalism.
(d) Exposé.

2. In Chapter 13, "On the Stump," which work does Foster say that Comey's book A Higher Loyalty is similar to?
(a) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
(b) The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
(c) All the President's Men.
(d) Apologia Pro Vita Sua.

3. According to Foster in Chapter 9, "Living the News," what is McPhee's purpose in comparing geological change over time to a road trip?
(a) He is using humor to engage his audience.
(b) He is trying to make something unfamiliar easier to understand.
(c) He is demonstrating how creative a nonfiction writer can be.
(d) He is constructing a warrant to link claim to grounds.

4. In Chapter 2, "The Ecology of the Nonfiction Biosphere," Foster notes that the expectation for a writer to be engaging does not apply to which types of writing?
(a) Academic.
(b) Technical.
(c) Informational.
(d) Political.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, "The Power of the Prologue," Foster mentions a "squib." What is a squib, in this context?

2. According to Chapter 4, "The Parts You Don't Read," what are the sidebar discussions found in the book's back matter called?

3. In Chapter 9, "Living the News," which author does Foster say is at the opposite "pole" of New Journalism from Hunter S. Thompson?

4. In Chapter 14, "The Universe of Ideas/Ideas of the Universe," why does Foster introduce the example of Malcolm Gladwell?

5. In "Interrogating the Text," Foster says that source material should be "apt." He means that source material should be what?

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